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  4. May 2025
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Brea, California · one day

Monday 12 May 2025

21 drone flights from Brea Police Department's published record.

21

drone flights over Brea that day.

8:17 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:27 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 21 times on Monday 12 May 2025, the first at 8:17 am and the last at 9:27 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Training and testing81%
  2. Call for service14%
  3. Other5%

Flights, in order

21 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:17 amTraining and testing13 min51d06042
12:19 pmTraining and testing7 mind0fb0efa
1:03 pmTraining and testing7 mina9291fdc
2:23 pmTraining and testing14 min5159e5a2
3:13 pmTraining and testing1 min 48 s8828b50b
3:17 pmTraining and testing6 min7cf28c23
3:27 pmTraining and testing7 min3104f627
4:09 pmTraining and testing9 mine607d56c
4:21 pmTraining and testing7 min4b49a73b
4:55 pmTraining and testing24 mina23739c6
6:22 pmTraining and testing6 min8f26e9cb
6:46 pmTraining and testing8 minc29c6956
6:54 pmTraining and testing7 min601a2334
7:03 pmOther12 minb9a1d060
7:22 pmTraining and testing7 min9ad54371
7:45 pmCall for service26 minf5d8fc5f
8:13 pmTraining and testing9 min098131c9
8:30 pmCall for service13 min7f52bd80
8:58 pmTraining and testing3 min9119d1ee
9:06 pmCall for service19 mine37d3370
9:27 pmTraining and testing5 min78d1dd60

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • 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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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