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  4. May 2025
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Brea, California · one day

Friday 30 May 2025

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

13

drone flights over Brea that day.

10:36 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:28 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 13 times on Friday 30 May 2025, the first at 10:36 am and the last at 9:28 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service69%
  2. Training and testing31%

Flights, in order

13 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
10:36 amTraining and testing24 minb1975bf2
3:49 pmTraining and testing5 min248c2e17
4:45 pmCall for service8 min229c7225
5:39 pmCall for service16 minc2e3f5a1
6:03 pmCall for service16 min71693288
6:37 pmCall for service12 min2177dfa0
7:15 pmCall for service10 min4a42caf1
8:03 pmCall for service24 min89a8a510
8:28 pmCall for service25 min32baf8b2
8:56 pmCall for service10 mine0a72611
9:09 pmTraining and testing4 minf3c7d8a1
9:16 pmTraining and testing9 min2aecc776
9:28 pmCall for service13 min6204ff09

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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