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Laurel, Maryland · one day

Sunday 9 August 2026

16 drone flights from Laurel Police Department's published record.

16

drone flights over Laurel that day.

1:32 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:40 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Laurel police drones flew 16 times on Sunday 9 August 2026, the first at 1:32 pm and the last at 9:40 pm EDT, by Laurel Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, EDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service88%
  2. Traffic and crashes12%

Flights, in order

16 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:32 pmCall for service10 minfb7dbf03
1:44 pmCall for service10 min95ab1652
2:04 pmCall for service11 min8d4118bc
2:39 pmCall for service9 min2bb3a899
4:14 pmCall for service8 min4aa37b6d
4:42 pmTraffic and crashes12 minec71d8e3
4:55 pmCall for service11 min18db7809
5:51 pmCall for service15 min3edc36dd
6:29 pmCall for service6 mine120c0d7
7:06 pmCall for service14 minbed31c9b
7:24 pmCall for service19 min4bf769a8
7:51 pmCall for service7 min730a57bc
8:25 pmTraffic and crashes3 mine3f04c68
8:30 pmCall for service9 min3f993353
8:41 pmCall for service8 min4546a4b0
9:40 pmCall for service3 minf4884213

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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