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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Friday 19 December 2025

10 drone flights from Rochester Police Department's published record.

10

drone flights over Rochester that day.

7:38 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:30 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 10 times on Friday 19 December 2025, the first at 7:38 am and the last at 7:30 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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, CST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Other10%
  3. Events10%
  4. Traffic and crashes10%
  5. Training and testing10%

Flights, in order

10 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 (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:38 amCall for service14 min5dfdb475
8:19 amOther12 min3aacd020
8:26 amEvents13 min4591e17a
9:34 amCall for service12 min1143791f
1:23 pmCall for service8 mindbcc37b4
4:16 pmCall for service13 min56213a31
5:38 pmTraffic and crashes11 min629880b7
6:24 pmTraining and testing3 min4a6478f7
7:19 pmCall for service4 min024a8a0f
7:30 pmCall for service4 mina3dbb5ae

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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