Eyes in the sky: Hong Kong police tackle petty crime with drone patrols, but privacy concerns linger

Several times a day, a drone carrying high-capacity cameras and flashing red-and-blue lights whirs and rises from the rooftops of police stations across Hong Kong.

They emerge from a box-shaped docking system that slowly unfolds its doors to both sides.

Some hover over the city’s billion-dollar villas with private pools and tennis courts; others whizz […] ...