---
title: "Spanish Police Using Drones to Yell at People Breaking Quarantine"
description: "Police in Spain are using drones to broadcasting messages that urge people to go home and quarantine themselves."
date: "2020-03-16"
modified: "2020-03-16"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/spanish-police-drones-yell-breaking-quarantine"
categories:
  - "Drones"
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "coronavirus"
  - "covid19"
  - "drones"
  - "spain"
---

# Spanish Police Using Drones to Yell at People Breaking Quarantine

![Police in Spain are using drones to broadcasting messages that urge people to go home and quarantine themselves.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/spain-china-drones-quarantine.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Marco Verch/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

In response to a sudden increase in confirmed cases of COVID-19, police in Spain are using drones to patrol towns and urge people to stay indoors.

The country issued a state of emergency on Friday, and on Saturday the government ordered everyone in the country to stay home for all but the most crucial trips outdoors, [according to *Business Insider*](<https://www.businessinsider.com/spanish-police-using-drones-to-ask-people-stay-at-home-2020-3>). And now, like in [China earlier this year](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/china-drones-yell-coronavirus>), Spanish police are hoping to shame people into staying indoors without having to approach them and risk spreading disease.

Footage [from the *BBC*](<https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1239267152546467843>) shows police speaking into a radio and urging people walking through a Madrid park to go home. Meanwhile, a drone flying overhead relays the message to the people who were outside in spite of the quarantine.

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1239267152546467843

Cops using drones to yell at people to stay inside sounds like something straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia. But following quarantine guidelines and keeping one's distance are some of the best ways to slow down — and hopefully, eventually, stop — the spread of the coronavirus.

Spain's policy mirrors the quarantine in place in Italy, which has been hit by one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks worldwide — the newly-declared state of emergency is meant to prevent things from getting just as bad there too.

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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