drone flights over Brea that day.

11:29 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:40 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 17 September 2026, the first at 11:29 am and the last at 8:40 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service89%
Training and testing11%

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 (PDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
11:29 am	Call for service	24 min	`699fdcc2`
12:08 pm	Training and testing	1 min 30 s	`89e32711`
3:49 pm	Call for service	12 min	`0213a5f5`
4:15 pm	Call for service	5 min	`5a9202d9`
4:39 pm	Call for service	7 min	`3e54ce68`
4:53 pm	Call for service	6 min	`45d9fe3e`
5:18 pm	Call for service	14 min	`de6dcbd6`
8:11 pm	Call for service	10 min	`16091da2`
8:40 pm	Call for service	13 min	`cf713447`

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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