5
drone flights over Rochester that day.
9:58 am
first takeoff; the last was at 12:16 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 5 times on Thursday 15 January 2026, the first at 9:58 am and the last at 12:16 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
5 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:58 am | Call for service | 12 min | 62170607 |
| 10:19 am | Events | 3 min | 2129879f |
| 10:37 am | Call for service | 10 min | 19516a3c |
| 11:00 am | Call for service | 11 min | aae210b6 |
| 12:16 pm | Training and testing | 11 min | 10f214c7 |
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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