8
drone flights over Melrose Park that day.
10:24 am
first takeoff; the last was at 6:15 pm.
8 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Melrose Park police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 7 October 2026, the first at 10:24 am and the last at 6:15 pm CDT, by Melrose Park Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
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 (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:24 am | Call for service | 13 min | 9a0c2316 |
| 10:55 am | Call for service | 17 min | ceca31d8 |
| 11:34 am | Call for service | 7 min | f0c7e43d |
| 12:30 pm | Call for service | 52 s | 7b949d09 |
| 12:31 pm | Call for service | 19 min | b8321248 |
| 2:19 pm | Call for service | 7 min | f4767c97 |
| 2:28 pm | Call for service | 5 min | 880acb12 |
| 6:15 pm | Call for service | 9 min | b4f3bd40 |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
- 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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