Moose Jaw Chief of Police Rick Bourassa says it's a complicated process, but one that will be well worth it. 

Members of the Moose Jaw Police Service have begun training in unmanned aerial vehicle or drone training. 

Bourassa said using a drone will be a huge benefit to the city police, mainly in missing person situations. 

"There was one situation a couple [of] years ago with a fellow that had wandered out into a field and he was incapable of looking after himself and was laying out there in the grass, and we had people out there 12 hours, 14 hours, and when the sun finally came up with found him just instantly, but if we would have had one of these, we could have flown over and we would have found him in a flash. We see a lot of value in this."

Several officers have completed some classroom training and this summer began to practice flying at the Radio Control Aircraft Club grounds. 

Bourassa said with new legislation, officers will need to obtain certification through Transport Canada and says that process has already been started. 

"One of the things that we've done is we've already had pilot training in the classroom," said Bourassa, "and we included a number of our officers and people from search and rescue, because it's important that they understand this as well, because there's so much value in looking for missing persons."

Besides aiding in missing person cases, Bourassa said that some situations where tactical involvement is needed as well as traffic accident mapping will be aided greatly by the use of the drone. 

Const. Todd Booth, who has taken the lead on the implementation within the force said the new technology will include video and photo radar capabilities, including heat mapping technology. He said it has the potential in traffic accident situations to bring mapping times down from several hours to just a few minutes.  

There's no set timeline for implementation yet, but the force hopes to begin implementing drone technology sometime next year.