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Brea, California · one day

Tuesday 20 May 2025

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

23

drone flights over Brea that day.

9:51 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:30 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 23 times on Tuesday 20 May 2025, the first at 9:51 am and the last at 11:30 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 23. 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 testing57%
  2. Call for service30%
  3. Other9%
  4. Not stated4%

Flights, in order

23 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
9:51 amTraining and testing8 min51a72b7f
10:14 amTraining and testing8 min8bcb8a67
10:32 amNot stated0 s86c42449
12:55 pmTraining and testing7 min0317f4fd
2:40 pmTraining and testing8 min61c04d98
2:49 pmTraining and testing5 minc2045a58
3:34 pmTraining and testing2 minf68a858e
3:42 pmTraining and testing6 s2b6b2952
3:42 pmOther9 min56d0428e
5:46 pmTraining and testing54 sea82fd7f
5:48 pmTraining and testing1 min 00 s734c1ec4
5:50 pmTraining and testing1 min 00 s19d5d15c
7:03 pmCall for service4 minb7097bf5
7:17 pmCall for service8 min203badd5
7:25 pmCall for service11 min159adba7
7:38 pmCall for service12 min5a91fc51
7:51 pmTraining and testing0 sf5b4ab15
7:54 pmCall for service8 minb1877acd
8:12 pmTraining and testing0 s0250b13a
8:13 pmTraining and testing0 s4fb63a38
8:14 pmOther10 minf9f2d380
8:46 pmCall for service15 mindbba1f9d
11:30 pmCall for service12 min1065c496

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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