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Originally Posted by marcham

I wonder if there's a business oppurtinity for contracting out this kind of work for local police forces...?

Alsway money to be made if you have the courage, perseverence and the ability to keep working your contacts.

However, the moment you start to make it a business, MAAC has specific policies in place regarding money-moaking as the use of UAV's. Essentially, this activity would no longer be a pure hobby but would fall on the commercial side of things and would be covered under the DOT rules and regulations and you would be required to obtain proper commercial insurance (MAAC's insurance carrier is quite specific on this.)

If you do searches here on "aerial photography" as well as on RCG and RCU, you should get a pretty good idea of what is required from a business plan, insurance and regulatory viewpoint.

Not impossible but you probably will not make piles of money from this.