drone flights over Brea that day.

11:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:47 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brea police drones flew 9 times on Saturday 19 September 2026, the first at 11:23 am and the last at 8:47 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 service67%
Training and testing33%

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
11:23 am	Training and testing	2 min	`70a0ad67`
11:38 am	Training and testing	12 min	`b807bc6f`
2:27 pm	Call for service	10 min	`06bce672`
2:39 pm	Call for service	13 min	`1a78aca2`
4:18 pm	Call for service	20 min	`2c700770`
5:32 pm	Call for service	11 min	`a8267de7`
5:51 pm	Training and testing	1 min 30 s	`3d386e11`
6:58 pm	Call for service	8 min	`029f793f`
8:47 pm	Call for service	9 min	`f1f19b86`

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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