18
drone flights over Los Angeles that day.
12:21 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 7:12 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Los Angeles police drones flew 18 times on Thursday 22 January 2026, the first at 12:21 pm and the last at 7:12 pm PST, by Los Angeles Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
18 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 (PST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:21 pm | Radio call | 17 min | df318eac |
| 12:32 pm | Training and testing | 2 min | e8f195b0 |
| 12:37 pm | Training and testing | 3 min | 3ece5bc8 |
| 12:44 pm | Radio call | 19 min | 4d2e1c58 |
| 1:06 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 25 s | 99f52ecf |
| 1:10 pm | Radio call | 20 min | a3d2df77 |
| 1:28 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 7448fa0d |
| 1:44 pm | Radio call | 7 min | 9f1a3ac5 |
| 2:22 pm | Radio call | 10 min | b510974d |
| 2:55 pm | Training and testing | 7 min | ff094fcc |
| 4:25 pm | Training and testing | 18 min | cd8e756c |
| 4:26 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | 1e065484 |
| 5:22 pm | Patrol support | 10 min | 79e5dcbe |
| 5:43 pm | Radio call | 7 min | 6d7d5321 |
| 6:22 pm | Radio call | 10 min | cee3d5f8 |
| 6:41 pm | Radio call | 4 min | 2dd95f6e |
| 6:47 pm | Radio call | 12 min | 534349d2 |
| 7:12 pm | Radio call | 12 min | aca14215 |
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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