Palm Springs Police Department drones flew 206 times between 17 May 2025 and 17 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 5 of those flights were in October 2026.

1 of the 1 flights with a located address in October 2026, sampled evenly. The record gives a street address, not a position: each circle covers about a block around the address as the Census geocoder places it.

One flight, somewhere in this block

54 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 27 minutes.

2% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights per month, by takeoff date on the agency's local calendar. Click a month for its days.

13
8
1
36
24
77
41
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
5

May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose for each flight, grouped into classes, as a share of all 206 flights.

Call for service97%
Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.

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Flight list, October 2026

Every listable flight in the view, oldest first: date, takeoff time, purpose class, time airborne and the first eight characters of the source flight id. The filters above the map apply here too.

Date	Takeoff (PDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
Wed 14 Oct 2026	2:30 pm	Not stated	18 min	08df2ac8
Sat 17 Oct 2026	5:17 am	Not stated	27 min	08df2cd3
Sat 17 Oct 2026	5:47 am	Not stated	6 min	08df2cd3
Sat 17 Oct 2026	6:33 am	Not stated	29 min	08df2cd4
Sat 17 Oct 2026	7:02 am	Not stated	17 min	08df2cd5

All 5 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
Without filters the map draws at most 300 flights, sampled evenly from the latest full month, and the flight list is that month, capped at 500 rows. With filters the map draws at most 400 and the list at most 500, both sampled evenly, and the count line says when a cap applied. Each month's flights are a static JSON file under flights/ next to this page; the whole-record option is an even 300-flight sample.
Record source: Palm Springs Police Department, via DroneSense public dashboard (https://dashboard.dronesense.com/PSPDDFR), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; republication accepted by the owner 2026-11-01 (docs/rights-memo.md). Read from ../var/lib/drone-publish/work/sources/dronesense/palm-springs-pd-ca.json, no network at build time.
What this record does not publish: no flight path or coordinates (the record gives a street address; 144 of 204 addresses were placed on their block by the US Census Bureau geocoder, or by OpenStreetMap Nominatim for landmarks and business names (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), and the map draws a circle over that block; the rest, mostly intersections and bare street names, are counted but not drawn; there are no per-flight pages or animations). Nothing is inferred to fill those gaps.

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