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San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 30 January 2026

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

25

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 25 times on Friday 30 January 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

25 flights with a published block-level point of 25. 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. Other52%
  2. Call for service48%

Flights, in order

25 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
—Other7 min02e257e8
—Call for service6 min2b4c6dff
—Call for service22 min3221b210
—Other4 min39b3ca61
—Call for service15 min3a2d238d
—Other8 min3fb4bf94
—Other5 min4e218735
—Call for service19 min5cd63c1d
—Other2 min6184c74e
—Other2 min7012a64a
—Call for service19 min7099c28b
—Other4 min8010ca5b
—Call for service18 min8a24dbe6
—Call for service19 min9a216d44
—Call for service9 minb0e30def
—Other10 minbc8b7708
—Other3 minbec157d9
—Call for service10 mincabfeddb
—Call for service10 minccea74eb
—Call for service13 minceff00af
—Other3 mind98cb908
—Call for service21 minecea4585
—Other10 minf3e0158b
—Other3 minfdf928ce
—Other7 minffd42628

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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