ZIONSVILLE The Zionsville Police Department is training officers to fly drones as part of a new program officials say will boost officer safety and help fight crime as the community grows.

The department added drones a few months ago and already has used the technology to assist in a nighttime incident, officials said. Spencer Stuart is the lead drone pilot for the Zionsville Police Department and helped guide officers to a suspect.

"At nighttime, the drone is basically good for everything because I can see a lot of what regular eyes can't see. So I got the drone up in, I want to say less than 45 seconds, and I was able to see them running away from a vehicle. So, almost immediate response time," Spencer Stuart, the Lead Drone Pilot at the Zionsville Police Department, said.

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