The Effect of Drones on Preventing the Situation of Firearms Smuggling in the Borders of Kermanshah Province

These days, the development of new technologies has had a positive effect on crime prevention. In such a way that today the impact of new technologies in crime prevention, especially firearms smuggling across geographical borders is doubly important. Given the importance of border protection, the use of these technologies to prevent crime can provide a platform for neutralizing related threats. Prevention of firearms smuggling is increasingly felt as one of the challenges and threats to the borders of Kermanshah province. For this purpose, in the present study, the effect of using drones in preventing the situation of firearms smuggling from the borders of Kermanshah province has been investigated. This research is applied in terms of purpose and its method is descriptive survey. Data collection tools were library resources and a researcher-made questionnaire. For the reliability of the questionnaire, face reliability was used and for its validity, Cronbach's alpha coefficient formula was exerted, which shows the desired correlation (a> 70%). The statistical population includes border guards of Kermanshah province, 40 of whom have been selected as the sample size. The obtained data were then analyzed in SPSS software. According to the findings, the high accuracy and efficiency of drones, while minimizing human error and vulnerabilities, has an effective role in preventing, identifying and combating smuggling of firearms from the borders of Kermanshah province. The results also show that drones can have the highest performance in terms of control, surveillance and monitoring of the province's borders to prevent firearms smuggling.