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Brea, California · one day

Thursday 17 July 2025

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

12

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:00 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 12 times on Thursday 17 July 2025, the first at 11:20 am and the last at 9:00 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 12. 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. Other42%
  2. Call for service33%
  3. Training and testing25%

Flights, in order

12 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
11:20 amTraining and testing0 sb81ecd72
11:23 amTraining and testing0 sc7a3de02
4:02 pmTraining and testing4 min4f4c19bd
4:21 pmCall for service10 min6edaa1c9
4:56 pmCall for service6 min2ac8486a
5:08 pmCall for service14 min413288be
6:29 pmOther14 min52888cc5
6:55 pmOther10 minda0c48de
7:31 pmOther12 min05882ec7
7:58 pmOther19 min194e16b4
8:26 pmCall for service14 minb2a9302f
9:00 pmOther3 min2e9c726d

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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