8
drone flights over Denver that day.
11:23 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:57 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Denver police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 6 January 2026, the first at 11:23 am and the last at 3:57 pm MST, by Denver Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, MST.
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 (MST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:23 am | Patrol support | 13 min | 89da532b |
| 12:53 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | 28cc35ba |
| 1:12 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | 3d5185b4 |
| 1:22 pm | Training and testing | 5 min | e2893c55 |
| 2:21 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | 1b2d427b |
| 2:55 pm | Patrol support | 15 min | a97a30f3 |
| 3:37 pm | Patrol support | 11 min | 05d168d3 |
| 3:57 pm | Patrol support | 13 min | ecfbca84 |
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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