9
drone flights over St. Cloud that day.
11:06 am
first takeoff; the last was at 7:29 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
St. Cloud police drones flew 9 times on Friday 16 October 2026, the first at 11:06 am and the last at 7:29 pm EDT, by St. Cloud Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 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 (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:06 am | Call for service | 16 min | 7657e9fa |
| 11:42 am | Call for service | 12 min | dc1e7a8f |
| 11:53 am | Search | 10 min | e9de6f6f |
| 4:28 pm | Traffic and crashes | 16 min | af883d92 |
| 5:20 pm | Call for service | 21 min | f2e180ed |
| 5:36 pm | Call for service | 7 min | eb4d5513 |
| 5:47 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 848e74bb |
| 7:13 pm | Traffic and crashes | 11 min | 281711d1 |
| 7:29 pm | Other | 14 min | 0f6c19e6 |
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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