drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:50 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 19 times on Friday 12 June 2026, the first at 12:23 am and the last at 10:50 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Search32%
Other16%
Call for service16%
Patrol support11%
Training and testing11%
Traffic and crashes11%
Assisting another agency5%

Flights, in order

19 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
12:23 am	Other	13 min	`dea9e56d`
7:13 am	Search	11 min	`572d3c8c`
7:19 am	Assisting another agency	14 min	`0310e97f`
7:45 am	Patrol support	6 min	`0ecbea8f`
7:52 am	Other	4 min	`8af6c9f4`
8:05 am	Search	5 min	`bf350636`
8:20 am	Search	4 min	`26d8fceb`
8:55 am	Training and testing	2 min	`d62a72c8`
9:43 am	Training and testing	7 min	`000da3d4`
9:56 am	Traffic and crashes	8 min	`f1192bd2`
10:06 am	Search	7 min	`5fa44871`
10:20 am	Search	9 min	`8781cadf`
10:53 am	Other	6 min	`f37403f1`
11:30 am	Search	10 min	`1da5c3dc`
2:59 pm	Patrol support	14 min	`1d653d23`
9:37 pm	Call for service	9 min	`6cee296d`
9:58 pm	Call for service	5 min	`d60933b8`
10:41 pm	Call for service	6 min	`350fb18a`
10:50 pm	Traffic and crashes	6 min	`e4014d53`

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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