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Brea, California · one day

Friday 18 September 2026

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

10

drone flights over Brea that day.

1:02 pm

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

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 10 times on Friday 18 September 2026, the first at 1:02 pm and the last at 8:30 pm PDT, by Brea Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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 service50%
  2. Training and testing30%
  3. Not stated20%

Flights, in order

10 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
1:02 pmTraining and testing1 min 36 s4e71e742
2:14 pmCall for service10 mind45a4e73
2:38 pmTraining and testing2 minec0454d3
3:44 pmNot stated1 min 24 s34c6d33c
3:54 pmCall for service6 minf0beeedc
4:06 pmCall for service19 mina2545a65
6:42 pmCall for service22 minff693992
7:44 pmCall for service13 minc60872ef
8:15 pmNot stated3 minfc71fe53
8:30 pmTraining and testing5 min4f26bc3d

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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