KUALA TERENGGANU: Terengganu police are using drones to detect individuals with a high body temperature in public areas during the current total lockdown period.
State police chief, Datuk Rohaimi Md Isa said the drones, equipped with temperature scanning technology, could detect body temperatures in a group of people at a range of 20 metres from above.
“If the drone detects an individual with a high body temperature, such as 37.5 degrees Celsius, it will emit red light and our enforcement personnel will go to the location to identify the symptomatic individual.
“We have been using these drones for the past two or three days and they help our enforcement team immensely. Although we have 157 standard operating procedure (SOP) monitoring teams, they move from one location to another.
“This makes them unable to monitor every location at once, including detecting symptomatic individuals in public places,” he told reporters after visiting a roadblock at the Sultan Mahmud Bridge, here, Sunday.
He said the drones, based in Kuala Terengganu, were loaned to the state by a private company for police use throughout the enforcement of the full lockdown.
In April last year, Terengganu police used drones to track the movements and temperatures of residents in Dungun during the Movement Control Order (MCO).
