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  4. April 2026
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Brea, California · one day

Saturday 18 April 2026

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

14

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:31 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:41 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 14 times on Saturday 18 April 2026, the first at 11:31 am and the last at 8:41 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 service79%
  2. Other14%
  3. Training and testing7%

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
11:31 amCall for service43 mind7a81ed0
1:18 pmCall for service11 minb78e4b2e
1:51 pmCall for service6 min9d195b90
2:20 pmCall for service16 min6009156e
2:46 pmCall for service6 min20da0df2
3:23 pmCall for service13 min49fbf8bc
3:54 pmCall for service16 min2f1deaf9
4:36 pmCall for service6 minef146ee7
4:50 pmOther9 mine5d68dab
5:37 pmCall for service22 min527bee2e
7:11 pmOther19 mindffd29aa
7:32 pmTraining and testing18 s2d54cf5f
7:37 pmCall for service17 min5cdcf141
8:41 pmCall for service13 min2724e508

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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