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  4. May 2026
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Brea, California · one day

Friday 15 May 2026

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

16

drone flights over Brea that day.

11:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:30 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 16 times on Friday 15 May 2026, the first at 11:05 am and the last at 8:30 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 16. 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 service88%
  2. Training and testing12%

Flights, in order

16 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
11:05 amTraining and testing0 s6bf3cdea
11:39 amCall for service9 minfcd0fa5d
12:34 pmCall for service10 min1fc54b31
2:47 pmCall for service13 min7ad740cf
3:13 pmCall for service8 min083dccb5
3:46 pmCall for service20 minbb8bbcab
5:30 pmCall for service11 min48b24432
5:59 pmCall for service10 min04073f08
6:11 pmCall for service6 min2ec63556
6:28 pmCall for service18 minf721270e
6:48 pmCall for service15 min3e6ff2d3
7:51 pmCall for service1 min 06 s4288fcd6
7:52 pmCall for service0 s91ec8ad9
7:53 pmCall for service0 s9aef13b3
7:55 pmTraining and testing1 min 48 sb4c2bbfa
8:30 pmCall for service19 minb340094d

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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