8
drone flights over South San Francisco that day.
12:42 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:52 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
South San Francisco police drones flew 8 times on Monday 16 March 2026, the first at 12:42 am and the last at 11:52 pm PDT, by South San Francisco Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 (PDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:42 am | Call for service | 6 min | ef286e60 |
| 11:53 am | Search | 10 min | 8d1082cd |
| 2:59 pm | Traffic and crashes | 4 min | 0fc4e76c |
| 7:28 pm | Call for service | 19 min | dc85e4ab |
| 9:37 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 24bfec54 |
| 10:45 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 3f9e48aa |
| 11:25 pm | Traffic and crashes | 6 min | e4c09f9c |
| 11:52 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 9591a79d |
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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