Ya beat me to it. This sounds so much like a bunch of these guys do this as recreation, and talked the chief into buying a bunch of them by claiming it would be a great law enforcement tool. Problem is, as noted below, these things only fly well under certain conditions. Further, they aren’t very fast or maneuverable, so they can’t keep up with fleeing vehicles, and maybe not even with suspects fleeing on foot. So what, exactly, do they intend to use them for? Aerial parking enforcement?
Well according to the teaser at the top of this thread:
to conduct aerial surveillance over Palm Bay