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Brea, California · one day

Friday 29 August 2025

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

12

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:50 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:27 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 12 times on Friday 29 August 2025, the first at 11:50 am and the last at 8:27 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. Call for service58%
  2. Training and testing42%

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
11:50 amTraining and testing2 min95e40c33
1:49 pmTraining and testing3 minbe7b0f5b
2:57 pmCall for service8 minb644e942
3:07 pmTraining and testing0 se7d2d298
3:08 pmTraining and testing0 se4cbecaa
3:11 pmTraining and testing4 min7e1daae2
3:54 pmCall for service8 min09309290
4:32 pmCall for service15 min7709a6b4
5:06 pmCall for service4 mine1c5010b
5:45 pmCall for service18 minedad9d9d
8:15 pmCall for service11 min54daa0b9
8:27 pmCall for service15 mince8d6bb8

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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