S4 · 08/02
2025 · 16:00 ·
Kent Police · Kent, England, UK
| Company | Kent Police |
| Category | other |
| Type | injury |
| Date | 08/02 2025 |
| Time of day | 16:00 |
| Location | Kent, England, UK · Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey |
| Severity | S4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding) |
| Scale | 1 child injured |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | BBC |
A Kent Police DJI M30T operational drone struck an overhead cable during a search operation in Sheerness and fell, seriously injuring a child's hand and thumb (requiring two surgeries); IOPC investigation found the drone was deployed without a risk assessment, leading to a misconduct hearing for the officer.