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San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 23 January 2026

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

100

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 100 times on Friday 23 January 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

95 flights with a published block-level point of 100. 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. Other77%
  2. Call for service23%

Flights, in order

100 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
—Other8 min00274e8b
—Other15 min028bbccd
—Call for service22 min030edd58
—Other10 min08d8a4ed
—Other15 min0e3dbbfa
—Other17 min10209de5
—Other15 min14a540ec
—Other7 min1ba94792
—Other5 min1c03257a
—Other16 min1d2b5e58
—Other11 min1d44dd48
—Other15 min1f5fed54
—Call for service22 min1f776a7b
—Other15 min24763831
—Other15 min2649528a
—Call for service7 min275ae72e
—Call for service25 min2775decf
—Other10 min2d30521b
—Other10 min2d37aeac
—Other8 min2dae5f0f
—Other17 min2ddfb9ad
—Other20 min2fca6512
—Call for service19 min37da498a
—Call for service17 min3c92e48d
—Other8 min4004ee89
—Other10 min416b832e
—Other19 min41b7f86b
—Other15 min43a2a17e
—Call for service11 min47b57355
—Other20 min4a2c2198
—Other10 min4a525e96
—Other15 min4dfac387
—Other19 min5310295f
—Call for service8 min53c9fd18
—Other10 min55371483
—Other15 min553cd97c
—Other15 min563fdaa4
—Other18 min5783968b
—Call for service20 min597565d2
—Other22 min5a4fe8e0
—Call for service26 min5f7572df
—Call for service11 min63ecd02c
—Call for service23 min665f5134
—Other10 min672e9b52
—Other10 min6c44e686
—Other18 min6de17a4f
—Other20 min6e3a27b1
—Other3 min6efb3366
—Other10 min716c3bc9
—Other10 min76432046
—Other3 min766c8460
—Other15 min7a6e9db1
—Call for service20 min7d5a0e66
—Other10 min7ee42390
—Other12 min803a047c
—Other9 min87c49396
—Other15 min88c1efce
—Call for service20 min88c4e56f
—Other15 min8ef41090
—Other10 min9256a7f4
—Other15 min9312982a
—Other10 min94630ee7
—Other17 min97567227
—Other20 min9a023ff9
—Call for service10 min9cd4b98b
—Call for service5 min9ec4ad6d
—Call for service10 mina13a7bd2
—Other13 mina37caa2d
—Other17 mina441dd07
—Other15 mina75c3eb4
—Other22 mina9026b5a
—Call for service12 minabf89dc1
—Other14 minae240e40
—Other10 minb1811a03
—Call for service9 minb19cf16c
—Other21 minb3fac1e9
—Other10 minbd147166
—Other6 minbdac1165
—Other20 minc2a2f3d8
—Other10 minc452fc88
—Other15 minc4ad4abc
—Call for service21 minc51c6b6b
—Other15 minc70c4e4c
—Other11 mincaf1fd26
—Other15 mincc09a22f
—Other13 mincc638a99
—Other11 mind3e0210f
—Other12 mind629cb84
—Other15 mind7db2487
—Other15 minda8501f9
—Other3 mine683efc3
—Other15 minebe9eb73
—Other11 minee20e2d2
—Call for service15 minee35c967
—Call for service13 minef9b2cdd
—Other10 minf0c350cf
—Other10 minf248a400
—Call for service10 minfa8366b1
—Other15 minfbb95416
—Other10 minffe6301d

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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