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  4. September 2026
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El Cajon, California · one day

Sunday 6 September 2026

15 drone flights from El Cajon Police Department's published record.

15

drone flights over El Cajon that day.

9:13 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:49 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

El Cajon police drones flew 15 times on Sunday 6 September 2026, the first at 9:13 pm and the last at 11:49 pm PDT, by El Cajon Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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 service93%
  2. Other7%

Flights, in order

15 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
9:13 pmCall for service10 mina4becc35
9:20 pmCall for service19 min2bed0dbe
9:37 pmCall for service16 minaef7f3d2
9:54 pmCall for service17 min13e41c9d
10:06 pmCall for service19 min227c146e
10:17 pmCall for service18 min942bf575
10:30 pmCall for service20 min8ff888c9
10:43 pmCall for service16 min29024574
10:53 pmCall for service17 mine1b48127
11:04 pmCall for service18 minf81ace87
11:15 pmCall for service16 min9f70f728
11:26 pmOther17 minfeab077d
11:38 pmCall for service17 min60b109f8
11:43 pmCall for service14 min9ccdc18f
11:49 pmCall for service9 min35113270

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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