80
drone flights crossed Cbd.
80
of them in April 2026.
8 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Cbd 80 times between 1 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, by Denver Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 April 2026.
12 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
1% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).
0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.
Why, in the agency's words
The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 80 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, April 2026
| Date | Takeoff (MDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 1 Apr 2026 | 3:33 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | 095c0dd9 |
| Thu 2 Apr 2026 | 10:24 am | Patrol support | 3 min | 2d819f21 |
| Thu 2 Apr 2026 | 12:54 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 214142dd |
| Thu 2 Apr 2026 | 1:28 pm | Patrol support | 10 min | e07ada61 |
| Thu 2 Apr 2026 | 2:09 pm | Patrol support | 12 min | 896aebe0 |
| Thu 2 Apr 2026 | 3:29 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | b3165736 |
| Mon 6 Apr 2026 | 2:10 pm | Patrol support | 11 min | 0fb38eb8 |
| Mon 6 Apr 2026 | 2:40 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | ef4fcdbb |
| Mon 6 Apr 2026 | 3:44 pm | Patrol support | 4 min | dc72d1d2 |
| Mon 6 Apr 2026 | 4:46 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | 483365e1 |
| Mon 6 Apr 2026 | 4:55 pm | Patrol support | 11 min | a495d0d9 |
| Mon 6 Apr 2026 | 5:11 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 989e8963 |
| Tue 7 Apr 2026 | 11:54 am | Patrol support | 5 min | ddbd77b9 |
| Tue 7 Apr 2026 | 12:12 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 076a8aa0 |
| Tue 7 Apr 2026 | 12:22 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | 6ef78c25 |
| Tue 7 Apr 2026 | 12:58 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | d628c4af |
| Tue 7 Apr 2026 | 2:24 pm | Patrol support | 19 min | c8260999 |
| Tue 7 Apr 2026 | 2:47 pm | Patrol support | 16 min | 96b0d0d4 |
| Wed 8 Apr 2026 | 1:06 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | fd106dea |
| Thu 9 Apr 2026 | 1:57 pm | Patrol support | 16 min | 03e90450 |
| Fri 10 Apr 2026 | 1:22 pm | Patrol support | 4 min | e79a1ec7 |
| Mon 13 Apr 2026 | 12:12 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 554c93dd |
| Mon 13 Apr 2026 | 12:24 pm | Patrol support | 3 min | 660bb656 |
| Mon 13 Apr 2026 | 3:48 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 51e1a438 |
| Mon 13 Apr 2026 | 4:01 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | 2ea30d03 |
| Tue 14 Apr 2026 | 2:17 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | 76fa04fe |
| Tue 14 Apr 2026 | 2:33 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | 2b2270cc |
| Tue 21 Apr 2026 | 11:53 am | Patrol support | 13 min | 0d7c571e |
| Tue 21 Apr 2026 | 1:22 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | 6c4e2154 |
| Tue 21 Apr 2026 | 1:31 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 01840733 |
| Tue 21 Apr 2026 | 2:58 pm | Patrol support | 9 min | 9543bd94 |
| Tue 21 Apr 2026 | 5:22 pm | Patrol support | 13 min | d06a5916 |
| Tue 21 Apr 2026 | 7:57 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | 64fd7092 |
| Tue 21 Apr 2026 | 9:10 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | f70e04bb |
| Tue 21 Apr 2026 | 9:27 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | ebaa654c |
| Wed 22 Apr 2026 | 11:18 am | Patrol support | 11 min | 9401f558 |
| Wed 22 Apr 2026 | 11:45 am | Patrol support | 6 min | 09232b85 |
| Wed 22 Apr 2026 | 12:25 pm | Patrol support | 13 min | d112b255 |
| Wed 22 Apr 2026 | 1:32 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 236ea379 |
| Thu 23 Apr 2026 | 12:39 pm | Other | 9 min | a00e3ab1 |
| Fri 24 Apr 2026 | 8:57 am | Patrol support | 9 min | c2997c77 |
| Fri 24 Apr 2026 | 9:30 am | Patrol support | 5 min | 8caaa44e |
| Fri 24 Apr 2026 | 9:53 am | Patrol support | 5 min | 6bce1513 |
| Fri 24 Apr 2026 | 2:44 pm | Patrol support | 3 min | 853c4c5e |
| Fri 24 Apr 2026 | 3:21 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | 92e6c91c |
| Fri 24 Apr 2026 | 5:18 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | ffd6141e |
| Mon 27 Apr 2026 | 3:11 pm | Patrol support | 15 min | 0258f852 |
| Mon 27 Apr 2026 | 4:27 pm | Patrol support | 13 min | e4342c2c |
| Mon 27 Apr 2026 | 5:01 pm | Patrol support | 15 min | 2b6191ed |
| Mon 27 Apr 2026 | 5:16 pm | Patrol support | 4 min | 335b85bb |
| Mon 27 Apr 2026 | 6:07 pm | Patrol support | 16 min | 4f3f6d13 |
| Mon 27 Apr 2026 | 6:56 pm | Patrol support | 16 min | 0e32f48a |
| Mon 27 Apr 2026 | 7:22 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | d9bbad9b |
| Tue 28 Apr 2026 | 11:41 am | Patrol support | 6 min | 0dac3eb1 |
| Tue 28 Apr 2026 | 12:07 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | 5833a2e2 |
| Tue 28 Apr 2026 | 12:40 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 8370394c |
| Tue 28 Apr 2026 | 4:56 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | 20b919e3 |
| Tue 28 Apr 2026 | 6:09 pm | Patrol support | 11 min | 8c08153c |
| Tue 28 Apr 2026 | 6:32 pm | Patrol support | 16 min | 24b61dee |
| Tue 28 Apr 2026 | 6:56 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | 14d36d98 |
| Tue 28 Apr 2026 | 7:53 pm | Patrol support | 9 min | 561d33cc |
| Tue 28 Apr 2026 | 10:06 pm | Patrol support | 17 min | 7ab6ca78 |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 9:57 am | Patrol support | 5 min | 30be7d12 |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 12:06 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | 08dd52bc |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 12:15 pm | Patrol support | 12 min | 0db63d14 |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 12:30 pm | Patrol support | 12 min | 71cb91c2 |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 1:48 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | ddf28b01 |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 3:42 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | c0dcb23b |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 5:17 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | 7bb4adf7 |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 6:58 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | 1e1cd709 |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 7:41 pm | Patrol support | 16 min | 2c25c191 |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 8:20 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | 26a64f87 |
| Wed 29 Apr 2026 | 9:46 pm | Patrol support | 13 min | 85822604 |
| Thu 30 Apr 2026 | 9:30 am | Patrol support | 12 min | 8772f650 |
| Thu 30 Apr 2026 | 11:02 am | Patrol support | 8 min | 143b51f5 |
| Thu 30 Apr 2026 | 12:25 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | eb8c67a7 |
| Thu 30 Apr 2026 | 2:17 pm | Patrol support | 5 min | c2551134 |
| Thu 30 Apr 2026 | 2:57 pm | Patrol support | 12 min | 810a89a7 |
| Thu 30 Apr 2026 | 5:29 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | d8a24903 |
| Thu 30 Apr 2026 | 9:05 pm | Patrol support | 17 min | 96463990 |
All 80 flights in April 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.
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.
- Boundary. "Cbd" is a neighborhood polygon from City and County of Denver (Statistical Neighborhoods), licence recorded as "CC-BY-3.0", in the place layer file for Denver.
- A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.
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