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South San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 9 January 2026

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

10

drone flights over South San Francisco that day.

11:27 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:02 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South San Francisco police drones flew 10 times on Friday 9 January 2026, the first at 11:27 am and the last at 10:02 pm PST, by South San Francisco Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Traffic and crashes40%

Flights, in order

10 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
11:27 amCall for service3 mince11bb02
11:31 amCall for service11 min7978b18f
1:55 pmTraffic and crashes16 min68883619
4:12 pmTraffic and crashes20 min4e74f19d
5:35 pmCall for service16 min10c9dda4
6:17 pmCall for service11 min56fb5101
6:18 pmCall for service17 min36361b90
6:53 pmCall for service13 min133017c4
7:09 pmTraffic and crashes7 min4e7dc4d7
10:02 pmTraffic and crashes8 min750e6431

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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