The Camera of Senators approved in commissions reforms to the Civil Aviation Law and Mexican Airspace Protection Law whose purpose is to regulate the use of drones in tasks of prevention, investigation and prosecution of crimes.
In accordance with the decree that will be submitted for discussion and vote by the full chamber in the ordinary session of this Thursday, April 26, the changes to the first law will define as “Unmanned Aircraft intended for tasks of prevention, investigation and persecution of the crimes”, those “State aircraft intended to fly without a pilot on board, whose technical and operational characteristics will be classified by the National Council for Surveillance and Protection of Airspace, in coordination with the Secretariat (of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation), to tasks of prevention, investigation and prosecution of crimes and in accordance with what is established by the laws of the matter”.
The amendment to the Law for the Protection of the Mexican Airspace will specify that the National Council for Surveillance and Protection of the Airspace will have, among its powers, the following:
“In coordination with the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, prepare the guidelines for the regulation and operation of unmanned aircraft intended for tasks of prevention, investigation and prosecution of crimes.”
The explanatory statement of the opinion states that the drones They are also used by criminal organizations for the commission of crimes, which is why it is necessary to change the law so that it is the National Council for Surveillance and Protection of Airspace that defines and delimits the characteristics and capabilities of Unmanned Aircraft for prevention tasks. of the crime in coordination with the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT).
This, he adds, will result in the certainty regarding which drones can be used by owners and users of unmanned devices for commercial, recreational and private non-commercial use and not invade the competence of the institutions in charge of crime prevention.
According to the document, although the use of drones has brought advantages and benefits to the industrial sector, it is urgent to observe risk areas such as its use to invade from the privacy and intimacy of people to the commission of attacks “similar to those that occurred on 9/11”.
In recent years, he details, “criminal organizations have used drones to commit crimes” in the country, and as an example he recalls: “In February 2022, the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) implemented an anti-drone system due to the danger that represents that the RPAS fly over the National Palace, in order to avoid the violation of the security and privacy of the President of the Republic, through attacks, espionage or hacking”.
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