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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

Drones and AI-powered CCTV: Inside the battle to stop trespassers causing chaos on London's railways

Drones and AI-powered CCTV cameras are being used by police to check for railway trespassers in a bid to tackle a problem that causes more delays than signal failures each year.

The drones shorten the search for people reported on the tracks from about an hour or more to a matter of minutes, can often avoid the need to switch off the power and reduces the risk to search parties.

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