This article explores in empirical detail the air-bound expectations, imaginations and practices arising from the acquisition of a new police drone in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. The study shows how drones are transforming the ways in which the aerial realm is lived as a context, object and perspective of policing. This tripartite structure is taken as a prism through which to advance novel understandings of the simultaneously elemental and affective, sensory, cognitive and practical dimensions of the aerial volumes within, on and through which drones act. The study of the ways in which these differing dimensions are bound together in how the police think about drones and what they do with them enables the development of an ‘aerial geopolitics of security’ that, from a security viewpoint, approaches interactions between power and space in a three-dimensional and cross-ontological way.

本文从经验上详细探讨了在瑞士纳沙泰尔州购置一架新的警用无人机所产生的空前期望，想象和做法。这项研究表明，无人机是如何以治安的背景，对象和视角来改变空中领域的生存方式的。这种三方结构被视为一个棱镜，通过它可以对无人机内部，无人机上以及无人机所通过的空中空间同时进行元素，情感，感官，认知和实际尺寸的新颖理解。对这些不同方面如何在警察如何思考无人机以及如何对无人机进行处理方面进行捆绑的研究，可以发展出一种“空中安全地缘政治”，从安全的角度来看，