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Brea, California · one day

Wednesday 22 April 2026

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

12

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:56 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:42 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 12 times on Wednesday 22 April 2026, the first at 11:56 am and the last at 8:42 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

12 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 service83%
  2. Training and testing17%

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
11:56 amCall for service9 mindec94b5a
12:43 pmTraining and testing8 min7288a907
2:10 pmCall for service8 minc02b553c
2:47 pmCall for service13 min3e1fea9c
4:06 pmCall for service12 min4807159d
4:33 pmCall for service20 minf143c5d9
5:02 pmCall for service10 min08d138d4
6:48 pmCall for service11 mineaddab27
7:28 pmCall for service20 min010c820d
8:15 pmCall for service6 min428b2746
8:38 pmTraining and testing24 s7ccaade8
8:42 pmCall for service9 min584f2546

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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