Two people arrested today. No more info yet. Caught by a witness seeing a guy packing up two drones near the perimeter.
That's interesting, where did you hear that? I heard it was a local arrested in Crawley, either way an arrest means nothing, the Air Force bought in an Aeroscope so this could just be a case of them arresting the first person who fired up a DJI product in the local area, mine is staying in its box until this has all blown over lol.
To all the people who suggested recruiting the local FPV crowd to bring it down, I suggested this Thursday to an active police officer (local Bobby here in Surrey) and nearly got myself arrested in the process, i even offered to give them a battered up old bloody wonder to use, but they refused - to them we are the enemy, they were offered help from one of the companies on the Manor Royal Estate (next to the airport) who specialise in anti-drone tech and told them no thanks we have this under control (yeah right), most of the police involved in this have an astronomical belief in their own abilities and refused all help that was offered, the commander didn't even realise you or I could "tune in" to the FPV frequency if it was a regular one and follow it back, they are that clueless and asking for help from the local model flying community (there are three clubs within a stones throw of Gatwick) is the last thing they would do, honestly I think we are prime suspects even though it was obviously not a hobbiests or a kid with a new toy.
I honestly wouldn't be suprised to find this arrest is nothing more than the first poor sap to turn on a DJI product locally, I was changing out my camera on my whoop in the kitchen last night and within 5 minutes the copper chopper was hovering over my house, i think it was just luck as they seem to be chasing someone in a car and moved off long before I turned the camera off, but it scared the crap out of me at first.
