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Brea, California · one day

Saturday 16 August 2025

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

14

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:13 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:20 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 14 times on Saturday 16 August 2025, the first at 11:13 am and the last at 8:20 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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 service43%
  2. Training and testing36%
  3. Other21%

Flights, in order

14 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
11:13 amTraining and testing1 min 12 sb9271189
11:15 amTraining and testing3 minc4615b34
11:46 amCall for service8 minf03889e6
12:03 pmCall for service6 minda00c3b7
1:42 pmTraining and testing2 min5f1e69e1
1:46 pmTraining and testing3 min73330bf9
1:55 pmOther8 min8baec3c2
2:31 pmCall for service16 min2009b0f6
3:06 pmOther5 mind0850ffe
4:50 pmCall for service12 min489aa9b1
5:03 pmOther11 minf61d5a01
6:11 pmTraining and testing0 s3e510090
6:57 pmCall for service8 min6b1f9a3a
8:20 pmCall for service10 min0b762112

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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