WA news LIVE: WA Police increasingly using drones as first responders at crime scenes

09 Nov 2026, 23:37 · WAtoday

7.37am

WA Police increasingly using drones as first responders at crime scenes

WA Police are increasingly using drones to scope crime scenes and determine what response is needed on the ground.

In the first week of this month, 77 police jobs utilised the drones to support attending officers.

The drone captured the man’s arrest outside a petrol station in Baldivis.

One of those incidents was an assault which took place outside a petrol station in Baldivis on Saturday.

“About 6.45pm, police received multiple reports of a disturbance involving several people, including children, in a car park outside a service station on Baldivis Road, near Safety Bay Road,” a spokesman said.