9
drone flights over Brea that day.
11:03 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:29 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Brea police drones flew 9 times on Friday 16 January 2026, the first at 11:03 am and the last at 8:29 pm PST, by Brea Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 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 (PST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:03 am | Training and testing | 0 s | 24edb233 |
| 11:36 am | Call for service | 13 min | e76681a9 |
| 1:06 pm | Call for service | 9 min | b8098315 |
| 3:32 pm | Call for service | 16 min | 6310cfc3 |
| 5:13 pm | Call for service | 23 min | 599c1b06 |
| 7:30 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 7f9a75ac |
| 7:49 pm | Call for service | 12 min | c2449f30 |
| 8:02 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 1128db7b |
| 8:29 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 79a3d702 |
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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