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San Francisco, California · one day

Thursday 15 January 2026

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

17

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 17 times on Thursday 15 January 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

17 flights with a published block-level point of 17. 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 service88%
  2. Other12%

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 (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
—Call for service4 min08bbff91
—Call for service6 min0a5a6e84
—Other21 min0e554398
—Call for service19 min1741c0c6
—Call for service9 min1d71e843
—Call for service2 min22f6b259
—Call for service14 min25a8e100
—Call for service16 min47f1b225
—Call for service11 min48c8989d
—Call for service15 min66e8dcf5
—Call for service14 min6c84c6bf
—Call for service20 min7d2968b5
—Call for service10 min96aa9545
—Call for service19 minb12f1bab
—Call for service27 mincb5a4e7e
—Call for service10 minccfc90a2
—Other6 mind25c63fe

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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