Just how booming are drone deliveries of contraband to jails across Canada? According to official estimates, UAVs are now making rounds at a rhythm of nearly one prison per day.

Not only has the frequency of such illegal aerial runs to penitentiaries surged in recent years, but officials at unions representing Canadian prison guards say the sophistication of those operations to avoid detection has also increased. Recent statistics compiled by Public Security Canada, the country’s domestic safety ministry, show the 27 reports or interceptions of drones making contraband deliveries to prisons in 2015-2016 increasing to 354 between mid-2020 and 2021. And some observers say even those figures reflect far lower activity than what’s actually going on.

“We’re clearly losing control of facilities to those trafficking (contraband) inside them,” Mathieu Lavoie, president of one of Quebec’s largest prison guard unions, told Le Journal de Québec about the…

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Source: dronedj.com