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Report: US drones helping local police agencies
• msnbc.com staffSince then, the Times said, two unarmed Predators based at Grand Forks Air Force Base have flown at least two dozen surveillance flights for local police. The Times reported that the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration have also used Predator drones in domestic investigations.
"We don't use [drones] on every call out," Bill Macki, head of the police SWAT team in Grand Forks told the Times.
Congress authorized the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to buy unarmed Predators in 2005, the Times said, to search for illegal immigrants and smugglers on the country's northern and southwestern borders.
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