CONFERENCE

drone conference in Paris

Organization) organized the first world emergency drone on December 12 and 13, 2023.

landslides in Norway, the ambitious DFR program of Pearland PD, the impressive standards of operation of the Romanian national team, medical triage, explosions in Hamburg and Beirut, standard UAS tests from NIST, version V2 of the IEDO report from good drone practices, etc.

Police Drone Commission kick-off

This new commission created within IEDO reveals itself by organizing its first event during the IEDO CONF: the blue room, a police seminar with restricted access and dedicated to more sensitive and confidential themes. 32 Law Enforcement Officers from 13 countries (Germany, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Latvia, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Japan and the USA) met to discuss techniques use of the drone in support of a tactical intervention team, management of a national drone program, crowd control and location of buried bodies. The discussions were very fruitful and fun. The majority of participants asked for more seminars of this type.

This new commission aims to meet the needs for exchange between police drone pilots on good practices, to lead working groups on professional themes, to organize seminars, training and to develop the law enforcement community. within IEDO. Moreover, an announcement was made on the joint organization with the IPA (International Police Association) of a 5-day training in Germany in Gimborn from October 2 to 6, 2023. A great opportunity to share knowledge and experience between pilots from several countries.

Iedo Award 2022

Another highlight of this conference was the IEDO Award ceremony, the very first edition for IEDO. It is essential and indispensable to reward and highlight the good initiatives and efforts of deserving drone teams around the world. From the best fire or police operations, promising young teams, the innovative or the most communicative team, 7 drone teams in the world have been rewarded for their commitment and their results. www.iedo-drone.org info@iedo-drone.org

This 2022 edition was only possible thanks to the organization team made up entirely of volunteers, a great team. This conference made it possible to formalize the new Police drone commission which aims to develop the activities of the police community of IEDO, to announce the creation of a fire and rescue drone commission for 2023 with already many participants . The feedback from the participants was incredibly positive, they all expressed great satisfaction at having been able to be part of this first international IEDO CONF conference. Many of them have asked for the date of the next edition to be held in Paris in the same establishment. The presentation of the new policy of IEDO: the decentralization of the international association into national sections has aroused many vocations. And we can already announce the future creation of Belgian, Italian and German national sections.