# BRINC Responder at California: deployment

Canonical ID: `53ff3ce4-1e21-4644-ab0e-0b480f7a75ed`

Newport Beach Police Department (CA) Drone-as-First-Responder program: a roughly $2.17M five-year contract for seven drones (six Responders plus one tactical), approved February 2025.

## Key facts

- **Operator:** Newport Beach Police Department, CA
- **Contract:** ~$2.17M, 5 years, 7 drones (Feb 2025)

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-05-31_

- **Slug:** brinc-newport-beach-pd
- **Status:** active
- **Model:** [BRINC Responder](/models/brinc-responder.md) (id: `6023ec9f-c8e7-44ad-818a-31f1561a6df1`)
- **Company:** [BRINC](/companies/brinc.md) (id: `c9c5664a-cb1e-434d-8965-74f5870ad1be`)
- **Location:** [California](/locations/california.md) (id: `fdf937a9-5eeb-4e8d-a514-ef860b351b30`)
- **First seen:** 2025-02-25T12:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (2)

1. https://www.police1.com/drones/calif-pd-to-deploy-911-response-drones-under-new-2-17m-contract
2. https://dronexl.co/2025/03/03/newport-2m-brinc-drone-program-police-response/

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