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Roselle, Illinois

Roselle Police Department

Roselle, Illinois. 139 flights in the record from June 2023.

139

drone flights in the published record.

4

flights in August 2026, the latest full month.

30 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Roselle Police Department drones flew 139 times between 21 June 2023 and 27 August 2026, by the agency's own published record. 4 of those flights were in August 2026.

Time of dayNot published in this record.
Day of week

Showing 4 of 4 flights in August 2026.

3 of the 3 flights with a located address in August 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

117 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 120 minutes.

— The record publishes no times of day.

15 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.

  1. 3
  2. 3
  3. 7
  4. 2
  5. 1
  6. 1
  7. 2
  8. 1
  9. 1
  10. 5
  11. 9
  12. 3
  13. 4
  14. 14
  15. 7
  16. 4
  17. 4
  18. 3
  19. 4
  20. 4
  21. 3
  22. 3
  23. 3
  24. 3
  25. 2
  26. 2
  27. 7
  28. 2
  29. 2
  30. 1
  31. 1
  32. 3
  33. 3
  34. 3
  35. 4
  36. 3
  37. 6
  38. 2
  39. 4
Jun 23Jul 23Aug 23Sep 23Oct 23Nov 23Dec 23Jan 24Feb 24Mar 24Apr 24May 24Jun 24Jul 24Aug 24Sep 24Oct 24Nov 24Dec 24Jan 25Feb 25Mar 25Apr 25May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 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 139 flights.

  1. Training and testing28%
  2. Other28%
  3. Search21%
  4. Events13%
  5. Call for service9%
  6. Traffic and crashes1%

Hour of day

Not published: this record carries dates only.

Flight list, August 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.

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 4 Aug 2026—Training and testing180 min140
Mon 10 Aug 2026—Search60 min141
Wed 19 Aug 2026—Search40 min142
Thu 27 Aug 2026—Search20 min143

All 4 listable flights in August 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: Roselle Police Department, via the agency's own ArcGIS flight log (https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/4850e50ec6a24f20bad3bf18c387e09b), licence: agency-run ArcGIS Online feature service, no licence stated on the layer; republication accepted by the owner 2026-11-01 (docs/rights-memo.md). Read from ../var/lib/drone-publish/work/sources/selfpub/roselle-pd-il.json, no network at build time.
  • What this record does not publish: no time of day (flights are dated; the hour chart, time-of-day filters and night share are not shown); no flight path or coordinates (the record gives a street address; 90 of 139 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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