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  4. May 2025
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Brea, California · one day

Tuesday 13 May 2025

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

16

drone flights over Brea that day.

12:29 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:39 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 16 times on Tuesday 13 May 2025, the first at 12:29 am and the last at 5:39 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 16. 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 testing75%
  2. Call for service19%
  3. Other6%

Flights, in order

16 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
12:29 amCall for service5 min7eea709f
8:31 amTraining and testing22 minf6c88393
8:32 amTraining and testing35 min1e04ae99
8:56 amTraining and testing21 min0d371919
9:46 amTraining and testing12 min65987860
10:04 amTraining and testing36 sff3ddd68
10:04 amTraining and testing27 min4247b2dd
10:18 amOther6 min02b969d7
10:33 amTraining and testing12 min4b5bbc81
2:40 pmTraining and testing54 s41997ab6
2:41 pmTraining and testing12 s564da48e
2:44 pmTraining and testing7 minac75465a
3:08 pmTraining and testing8 minac377bc5
4:34 pmTraining and testing1 min 48 s618e1348
4:45 pmCall for service12 min6081c932
5:39 pmCall for service13 min85c289bb

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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