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San Francisco, California · one day

Monday 19 January 2026

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

13

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

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times not published in this record.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 13 times on Monday 19 January 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

12 flights with a published block-level point of 13. 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 service85%
  2. Other15%

Flights, in order

13 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 service21 min05717e5d
—Call for service18 min09c14446
—Call for service13 min1442dee1
—Call for service12 min1ec2f7ef
—Call for service7 min258ff11e
—Other4 min29652ff4
—Call for service3 min2ae9833b
—Other2 min71c3bc96
—Call for service11 min86523189
—Call for service15 min891d7f83
—Call for service10 min91f9893d
—Call for service12 min9dd4d967
—Call for service5 minbad34912

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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