9
drone flights over Rochester that day.
3:52 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:46 pm.
8 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 9 times on Tuesday 17 February 2026, the first at 3:52 am and the last at 4:46 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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:52 am | Call for service | 7 min | 71e42b4d |
| 7:34 am | Other | 14 min | 97a2af11 |
| 8:28 am | Call for service | 18 min | 22297024 |
| 9:03 am | Training and testing | 7 min | 1f28e33d |
| 9:11 am | Training and testing | 5 min | 9706ac4a |
| 12:11 pm | Training and testing | 39 s | 9ff2cc65 |
| 12:12 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 468f3d5b |
| 4:17 pm | Other | 8 min | 2fef8888 |
| 4:46 pm | Other | 12 min | 1a1009ad |
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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