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Laurel, Maryland · one day

Friday 2 October 2026

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

14

drone flights over Laurel that day.

2:50 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:30 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Laurel police drones flew 14 times on Friday 2 October 2026, the first at 2:50 am and the last at 9:30 pm EDT, by Laurel Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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 service71%
  2. Training and testing29%

Flights, in order

14 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
2:50 amCall for service18 min5faf71e1
12:47 pmTraining and testing1 min 23 s327db669
12:52 pmTraining and testing1 min 05 saae1bc71
1:04 pmCall for service16 min2efe3602
1:37 pmCall for service7 min4daca533
4:03 pmTraining and testing3 min904fe613
4:09 pmTraining and testing5 min8ea28d1d
4:28 pmCall for service20 minbbc09f46
5:44 pmCall for service18 min0775d858
6:34 pmCall for service13 min3ab80185
7:52 pmCall for service15 min0b89795d
8:09 pmCall for service8 min4375be25
8:36 pmCall for service14 minc1055877
9:30 pmCall for service17 min9dd2cf2d

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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