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Did you dispose of trimmings illegally? Didn’t pick up your dog’s feces?
The municipality’s state-of-the-art drones will be recorded – and fined.

Gil Shlomo, director of the Hadera Municipality’s Enforcement and Security Division, explains about the project and reassures those who fear “Big Brother”

Did you dispose of trimmings illegally? Did you not pick up your dog’s feces? Did you light a barbecue in a forbidden place? Did you damage city property in public parks? From now on Hadera municipality sees you in real time.

השלכתם פסולת במקום אסור? הרחפן רואה אתכם
Gil Shlomo and the drones (Photo: Elad Gershgoran)
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The municipality started a pilot on the topic of enforcement using drones. For now, the drones will focus on urban crimes, but in the future their role will expand as a means of assisting the security and rescue forces.
A sense of security
Gil Shlomo, director of the Hadera Municipality’s Enforcement and Security Division, explains that the drones will assist in emergency and routine tasks of the municipal policing: “There is no limit to the future possibilities of such a technological means to improve the sense of security and the residents of the city, in many aspects.”
The idea to carry out enforcement using drones was born by the mayor of the city, Zvika Gandelman, after Hadera was chosen to be the first city in which a national pilot was held to transport shipments using low-flying drone technology. It was a joint and ground-breaking pilot of a number of bodies, including the Ministry of Transportation, the Civil Aviation Authority, the Innovation Authority, the Smart Transportation Directorate and Israel Routes, and it made Hadera the first city where deliveries from the air would be possible.
According to Shlomo, during Gendelman’s visit to the drone complex, he sought to expand the uses of advanced technology and apply them to various aspects of city management. “The mayor instructed me to hold a pilot that would test the effectiveness of enforcement using a drone. The pilot is being carried out in all the neighborhoods including Ein Hayam, Givat Olga, Beit Eliezer, and in the city center and its main goal is to improve the sense of security of the city’s residents by creating an effective deterrent and also by making the municipal enforcement work active Visama. This is through the early identification of hazards through the drone, then sending personnel to deal with them immediately.”

So is this actually a measure that will help the Enforcement and Security Division?

“This is a complementary activity to enforcement and it does not take the place of our people, but helps us to carry out the enforcement in a more effective way. As part of this, we are now placing more cameras in the city in all kinds of hot spots, which we know in advance where frequent offenses such as littering are committed. This is an offense that is difficult to enforce In real time, since you don’t know who threw, if you are not there at that exact point in time. Another problem is stray dogs. There is a heavy hit of dog feces in the city and this is something that is difficult to catch in real time, a drone that we fly in advance to areas that we know have such frequent hazards , transmits the footage to the hotline in real time, the hotline sends an inspector to enforce the spot, and if it’s stray dogs we’ll arrive with a catcher and, if necessary, take the dog. This should certainly deter dog owners from letting them go unattended, and on the other hand, create a comfortable and pleasant environment for residents without dog excrement everywhere step.

“I am currently working on a work plan for next summer. For example, on the beach of Koshi, which is suffering from a plague of tents. If we put a drone up to scan, and after two hours again, the city police will arrive. Later, when the drones are in autonomous activity (without a pilot), routes will be built for them together with the operating company Air in mostly open places.

“We are now placing more cameras in the city in all kinds of hot spots, which we know in advance where frequent offenses such as littering are committed. This is an offense that is difficult to enforce in real time, since you do not know who threw, if you are not there at that exact point in time.”

In each area, say Olga Ein Hayam, the city center, Beit Eliezer, there will be a permanent drone, which will have a docking station with charging.

We are working with one drone, in the future there will be five.

Everyone will have a kind of roads in the air, at the moment it is very innovative, in two or three years, I estimate that we will see it everywhere”

Improvements and fixes have already been successes in the pilot?
“Definitely, even though we are at the beginning, and we still have time until we finish it. We found someone throwing grass clippings in Beit Eliezer, not on the day of collection, we sent an inspection and they enforced it immediately. We found a barbecue on the beach at night, located stray dogs and reached the owners who were fined. Later on, we will be able to assist with other operations with a drone in the city, which even touch the saving of human life, for example a missing person. We are in the pilot and on the move we are constantly changing and doing brainstorming but even while enforcing offenses, if we saw that in the photographed area there is a problem with a fallen signpost, or faded painting of road signs, this is another profit for us , because we know that there needs to be improved, fixed.”
Some residents fear that this is a “big brother” watching them.
“Our intention is only to restore a sense of security to the residents. We have a permit to fly it only up to 500 meters in a built-up area. It is still in its infancy and even when it will be in a built-up area in a wider range, there will be regulation and supervision and it will be built in an orderly manner. I emphasize, we only photograph offenses, no We enter nobody’s window. There will be fixed routes, we are not looking for routes inside the houses, we have no such intention, we are just looking for a clean and safe city.”
According to Shlomo, at this stage the drone is operated by the company that won the tender, however, in the near future, the municipality will maintain the drone with a gaff, it will have a docking station and a municipality dispatcher will send it to its destinations.
What kind of responses do you get?
“Residents’ reactions range from ‘it’s time for us to feel safe and the city is not deserted’ to those who feel that this is an invasion of privacy and as if they are being followed. We live in a world full of cameras and everything is exposed. But it is important to emphasize that we are not intruding on a person’s privacy, but enforcing violations, that’s all.”
Is it safe? There is no fear that they will fall? Will they collide?
“There is no concern, since the routes are fixed, it was tested at such a level of safety in the national pilot that even in an emergency scenario, if a drone detects a certain object it stops. But in the pilot in the field, they never reached such a state of stopping, to that extent the matter is safe and tested.”
“I emphasize, we only photograph offenses, we don’t go into anyone’s window. There will be fixed routes, we are not looking for routes inside the houses, we have no such intention, we are just looking for a clean and safe city”
At the end of the pilot, the municipality of Hadera is expected to put out a tender for the placement of drones, by which time it will have been decided where they will be located throughout the city.
“I am essentially a technological person, I came from Cellcom and Partner, and the whole topic of technological innovations speaks to me very much,” says Shlomo. “We should not be afraid of technology and move forward with it. Placing cameras will only do good for the city, on the level of saving human lives, for example, there is thermal night vision for a drone and we give it all the assistance it needs now that we have advanced means. Even during Independence Day events, for example, a drone can immediately tell us what What happens in the city, where it is possible to open, where not, earthquakes, emergencies, this gives us many options for assistance and solving problems.”

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