drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:10 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:30 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 18 times on Thursday 5 March 2026, the first at 12:10 am and the last at 10:30 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service50%
Training and testing33%
Events11%
Search6%

Flights, in order

18 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
12:10 am	Call for service	21 min	`e84fa779`
1:13 am	Training and testing	2 min	`686fe94c`
2:19 am	Events	18 min	`2f866386`
10:24 am	Call for service	21 min	`82e36627`
11:18 am	Training and testing	9 min	`5073ae47`
11:29 am	Training and testing	8 min	`de1d6f80`
1:29 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`37a20bf8`
1:44 pm	Events	9 min	`2e2f2a5b`
4:37 pm	Call for service	10 min	`ba58deaa`
6:38 pm	Training and testing	1 min 33 s	`8d91470d`
7:13 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`fe1895c8`
8:41 pm	Call for service	11 min	`4d4c387d`
8:49 pm	Call for service	13 min	`aea8cf31`
9:06 pm	Call for service	11 min	`087e351c`
9:26 pm	Call for service	11 min	`29126fd5`
9:44 pm	Search	14 min	`dcf74a9e`
10:18 pm	Call for service	46 s	`51dbe313`
10:30 pm	Call for service	18 min	`750c3415`

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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