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Brea, California · one day

Thursday 15 May 2025

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

20

drone flights over Brea that day.

2:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:03 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 20 times on Thursday 15 May 2025, the first at 2:06 am and the last at 8:03 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 20. 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. Call for service40%
  2. Other35%
  3. Training and testing25%

Flights, in order

20 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
2:06 amCall for service21 minc345e7ce
3:27 amCall for service18 min69c1ffc7
1:45 pmTraining and testing8 mina8759a4e
2:08 pmOther6 min518cc740
2:32 pmTraining and testing10 min0fa68c14
2:55 pmOther5 min1d374f60
3:07 pmTraining and testing4 mine7cff4a4
3:13 pmOther11 min174c4886
3:37 pmOther8 min42595dcd
3:53 pmOther4 min1ff54f41
3:59 pmOther6 minf7515148
4:17 pmCall for service13 min537b799f
4:41 pmTraining and testing8 min83293805
5:18 pmOther4 min2e738edc
5:45 pmCall for service16 min9aa748ef
6:33 pmTraining and testing5 minfbfd2aea
6:54 pmCall for service5 min47e8181e
7:33 pmCall for service9 mind40e400a
7:44 pmCall for service13 minf51fcbd1
8:03 pmCall for service12 min789bfe93

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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