From the BBC:
The UK's first police remote control helicopter has taken off.
Merseyside police are using the "spy drone", fitted with CCTV cameras, mainly for tackling anti-social behaviour and public disorder.
The machine is 1m wide, weighs less than a bag of sugar, and can record images from a height of 500m.
Originally used by the military, it is due to be operational by June for a full three-month trial, which is the "first of its kind" in the UK.
Kevin says: "What we need now is 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper to shotgun the thing out of the air, like he did with a similar alien-surveillance drone in John Carpenter's They Live: 'Mama don't like tattletales!'"
