drone flights over Denver that day.

12:04 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:03 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Denver police drones flew 17 times on Thursday 22 January 2026, the first at 12:04 am and the last at 5:03 pm MST, by Denver Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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, MST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Patrol support94%
Other6%

Flights, in order

17 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
12:04 am	Patrol support	15 min	`4ca9021b`
11:19 am	Patrol support	13 min	`a461c1e1`
11:22 am	Patrol support	13 min	`3921d246`
11:55 am	Patrol support	6 min	`6aa1a118`
12:13 pm	Other	59 s	`6a5dd7d9`
12:15 pm	Patrol support	11 min	`74e1dc9e`
12:27 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`5f6425fc`
12:31 pm	Patrol support	3 min	`04742afa`
1:16 pm	Patrol support	8 min	`535c5011`
1:21 pm	Patrol support	5 min	`99807014`
1:42 pm	Patrol support	13 min	`ca665443`
2:10 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`3f1166a8`
3:24 pm	Patrol support	5 min	`6ddfd05d`
3:35 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`27fce24d`
4:05 pm	Patrol support	9 min	`da3594a0`
4:43 pm	Patrol support	11 min	`33e1908a`
5:03 pm	Patrol support	11 min	`f8aa9bb6`

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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