Eagle-eyed: Dutch police to train birds to take down unauthorised drones

Police have joined forces with Guard From Above, a raptor-training security firm based in the Hague, to keep wayward drones from causing trouble

As the use of drones increasingly worries everyone from firefighters and air traffic control to law enforcement, Netherlands' national police have aligned themselves with a group that hates flying robots on principle: the bald eagle.

Dutch police have joined forces with Guard From Above, a raptor-training security firm based in the Hague, to keep wayward drones from causing trouble by snatching them out of the sky.