It would still take manpower to monitor RID and track down the pilots, unless they can tell from RID and location that a drone was operating illegally and that is enough to at least send a citation or something?
If it's the normal police who...
Unless you are a d**k and get the police involved (they enforce the CAA rules), no one is going to be checking drones at the moment. What happens when RID is blanket enforced on drones over 100g nobody knows. What happens if your drone is...
It's going to come down to enforcement.
Are they going to check drones for CE marks to make sure you were flying in the correct Open category?
I heard in 2027, UK1 may no longer map to C1 so Europeans visiting the UK with C1 drones may get into...