The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Friday unveiled what could become its latest weapon for fighting crime — a high-tech model plane equipped with a video camera — and said a SWAT team will begin testing the new surveillance technology within two months.

The 4-pound plane has a tiny camera in its belly that can be used for everything from overhead surveillance of buildings and tracking fugitives to searching for lost hikers and missing children, sheriff’s officials said.

The “SkySeer” will be donated to the department by Chang Industry for field testing. The company — whose president, Yu-Wen Chang, is a resident of Rancho Palos Verdes — worked with the Sheriff’s Department for about three years to produce the unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV.

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