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  4. January 2026
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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 28 January 2026

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

18

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 18 times on Wednesday 28 January 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

18 flights with a published block-level point of 18. 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 service67%
  2. Other33%

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)PurposeAirborneFlight
—Call for service16 min00ec6711
—Other20 min06b3a6c5
—Call for service3 min19b95eb6
—Other12 min29fe527a
—Other5 min3cdf456a
—Other13 min4431c89d
—Call for service7 min5704dd0f
—Call for service11 min642f422e
—Other11 min694856bc
—Call for service10 min69b60bc1
—Call for service14 min9a0b0980
—Call for service9 minb7a3b4a0
—Call for service20 minbbc5e0c0
—Call for service8 minbe95701b
—Call for service10 mincc1ad325
—Other6 minf0c90517
—Call for service16 minf6405fea
—Call for service11 minff0a0462

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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