drone flights over South San Francisco that day.

12:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:33 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South San Francisco police drones flew 10 times on Friday 3 July 2026, the first at 12:20 am and the last at 9:33 pm PDT, 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, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service40%
Search30%
Traffic and crashes20%
Assisting another agency10%

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 (PDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:20 am	Call for service	8 min	`6d324766`
1:39 am	Traffic and crashes	8 min	`7a50b095`
8:13 am	Call for service	8 min	`346148de`
11:05 am	Traffic and crashes	11 min	`89863370`
11:49 am	Call for service	5 min	`ea17f501`
1:47 pm	Search	15 min	`40ed3a74`
5:40 pm	Search	15 min	`15b545f0`
7:20 pm	Search	13 min	`7a1c41b5`
7:48 pm	Assisting another agency	5 min	`f8528e36`
9:33 pm	Call for service	6 min	`1b8ad99d`

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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