Overview of Drones in Public Safety

State of the Law, Overview of Drones in Public Safety

The student will learn about the use of drones in the public safety sector, as well as the status of regulation. This is not a licensure or pilot training course. Rather, this is designed to give the Public Safety (Police/ Fire/ SAR) practitioner an understanding or this emerging technology and how it can improve the services we deliver. Trends and possibilities will also be discussed. This course is aimed at those who are considering adding drones to the tool box of their unit, and the future pilot and chief alike should find this program entertaining and informative.

Seligsohn Instructor Bio

Sgt. Michael Seligsohn is a thirty-one year law enforcement officer who presently serves as a Patrol Sergeant on the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office, in South Lake Tahoe CA, and serves as one of the supervisors on the EDSO Unmanned Aerial Systems Unit. Seligsohn is an original member of this unit, and has coordinated the team’s training since its inception. He has either commanded or flown on most of the unit’s missions, including Search and Rescue, Tactical Overwatch, and Crime Scene Photography. Sgt. Seligsohn has an extensive background in training and adult education having served for over 25 years as a Field Training Officer, Field Training Program Manager, as well as taught general law enforcement classes in a variety of settings. Most recently he has instructed in the use of the sUAS in the Hazardous Material Environment at the California Specialized Training Institute and for the annual conference of the California Hazardous Material Investigators Association. He has also debriefed a complex Search and Rescue at the Stanislaus County Drone Symposium 2017. Seligsohn is a member of the Airborne Public Safety Association and participated as a panelist on the subject of forming a sUAS unit at the APSA Public Safety Drone Expo in New Orleans in 2017. Additionally Seligsohn is a twenty-five year volunteer with Boy Scouts of America where he uses his skills in adult education training Cub Masters, Committee Members and Committee Chairs.