7
drone flights over Denver that day.
12:42 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 5:42 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Denver police drones flew 7 times on Monday 16 March 2026, the first at 12:42 pm and the last at 5:42 pm MDT, by Denver Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, MDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
7 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 (MDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:42 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | a7295419 |
| 1:12 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | b53c4fc5 |
| 2:31 pm | Patrol support | 12 min | b092343f |
| 2:46 pm | Patrol support | 15 min | 8c04b125 |
| 3:01 pm | Patrol support | 10 min | 260d2c41 |
| 5:30 pm | Patrol support | 4 min | 5b48a863 |
| 5:42 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 8aba337c |
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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