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South San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 30 January 2026

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

16

drone flights over South San Francisco that day.

10:00 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:54 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South San Francisco police drones flew 16 times on Friday 30 January 2026, the first at 10:00 am and the last at 11:54 pm PST, by South San Francisco Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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. Events44%
  2. Call for service44%
  3. Search12%

Flights, in order

16 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
10:00 amEvents21 min085fea6a
10:00 amEvents23 minbd63477a
10:24 amEvents23 min38e51b5b
10:45 amEvents15 mind23c47f1
10:59 amEvents17 minf9169ec1
11:17 amEvents18 minaec820d4
11:33 amEvents21 minbe6402f5
1:28 pmCall for service15 min78b0516e
4:01 pmCall for service11 min0a49a67b
6:09 pmCall for service10 min366d6c38
6:21 pmCall for service14 mincd20a99e
8:04 pmCall for service18 min86526349
9:40 pmSearch17 minc065a62c
10:01 pmSearch15 min7580f0aa
11:04 pmCall for service7 minad95f0f6
11:54 pmCall for service17 minae023df3

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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