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San Francisco, California · one day

Tuesday 6 January 2026

19 drone flights from San Francisco Police Department's published record.

19

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 19 times on Tuesday 6 January 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

18 flights with a published block-level point of 19. The record gives no path.
One flight, at its published block

Hour by hour

Times not published in this record.

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service68%
  2. Other32%

Flights, in order

19 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
—Call for service6 min0bcce57e
—Call for service9 min23b778e6
—Call for service19 min25d91023
—Call for service10 min301f3204
—Other13 min30f3b225
—Call for service7 min312a938f
—Call for service13 min5e47dc8d
—Other15 min5fb213a0
—Other2 min6679320d
—Call for service18 min8ca8b259
—Call for service6 min957903c7
—Call for service17 mina5b524db
—Call for service16 minad2566a5
—Other3 minb237dbf6
—Other2 minc2596216
—Call for service16 minc8881f42
—Call for service22 mind0759170
—Call for service16 minfc4c79c3
—Other17 minfe78f831

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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