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  4. January 2026
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Brea, California · one day

Tuesday 27 January 2026

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

13

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:02 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 13 times on Tuesday 27 January 2026, the first at 11:23 am and the last at 8:02 pm PST, by Brea Police Department's published record.

10 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, PST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service54%
  2. Training and testing46%

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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
11:23 amTraining and testing1 min 18 sd2899a8a
11:25 amTraining and testing1 min 36 sa66fcc98
1:11 pmTraining and testing10 min9dda9ff5
2:24 pmCall for service6 min851f9b2a
3:00 pmCall for service6 mincfae4021
3:10 pmCall for service0 s509cbcfa
3:16 pmCall for service7 min4c04a7b5
3:30 pmCall for service3 min269fe99c
4:49 pmTraining and testing7 minba9eed85
5:14 pmTraining and testing0 sb1c36cdb
7:12 pmCall for service4 min9ab97225
7:53 pmCall for service0 s1a08de32
8:02 pmTraining and testing0 s9a01ac84

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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