8
drone flights over St. Cloud that day.
10:19 am
first takeoff; the last was at 5:56 pm.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
St. Cloud police drones flew 8 times on Friday 30 January 2026, the first at 10:19 am and the last at 5:56 pm EST, by St. Cloud Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EST.
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 (EST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:19 am | Call for service | 21 min | 7eebcb50 |
| 10:41 am | Call for service | 19 min | 89ad0c79 |
| 10:55 am | Call for service | 11 min | 6567b1b7 |
| 12:56 pm | Call for service | 9 min | f2fd0473 |
| 1:01 pm | Call for service | 16 min | a7366933 |
| 3:22 pm | Other | 14 min | de0a2f3d |
| 3:48 pm | Traffic and crashes | 7 min | 18335ad2 |
| 5:56 pm | Assisting another agency | 15 min | 2767c931 |
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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