drone flights over Concord that day.

2:28 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:44 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Concord police drones flew 17 times on Monday 13 April 2026, the first at 2:28 am and the last at 9:44 pm PDT, by Concord Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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 service53%
Traffic and crashes18%
Training and testing12%
Patrol support12%
Other6%

Flights, in order

17 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
2:28 am	Call for service	18 min	`cd1cdad3`
10:15 am	Traffic and crashes	9 min	`788fe4ee`
11:30 am	Traffic and crashes	7 min	`864ded81`
11:38 am	Call for service	7 min	`fc7686be`
11:48 am	Call for service	12 min	`69a607f3`
12:13 pm	Other	6 min	`d60904b6`
1:19 pm	Call for service	6 min	`491a4d7b`
1:51 pm	Call for service	12 min	`e1d1c205`
2:28 pm	Call for service	16 min	`1de70b4a`
3:10 pm	Traffic and crashes	9 min	`0f236013`
3:33 pm	Call for service	5 min	`710e69ba`
3:50 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`29bb4623`
5:42 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`b0561240`
6:45 pm	Patrol support	9 min	`76d858e9`
6:55 pm	Call for service	9 min	`dcbc1bcf`
7:10 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`b348537d`
9:44 pm	Call for service	8 min	`b72d8d94`

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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