drone flights over Rochester that day.

8:12 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:47 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 23 times on Tuesday 14 July 2026, the first at 8:12 am and the last at 11:47 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service43%
Events30%
Training and testing17%
Other4%
Traffic and crashes4%

Flights, in order

23 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 (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
8:12 am	Events	19 min	`0b413ec3`
8:34 am	Events	9 min	`7ae7dca6`
8:35 am	Events	4 min	`60bab4e8`
8:58 am	Events	1 min 36 s	`c37b1dc5`
10:00 am	Call for service	3 min	`752838e0`
11:17 am	Events	6 min	`9569e132`
11:31 am	Events	9 min	`a11a49e4`
12:03 pm	Call for service	8 min	`0f1e3cdc`
1:53 pm	Other	13 min	`5a49fd32`
1:58 pm	Call for service	7 min	`4a98608c`
2:02 pm	Events	12 min	`5c77b82f`
2:29 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`67bb9c06`
2:35 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`61644f02`
2:44 pm	Training and testing	1 min 04 s	`d41c0238`
2:55 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`c611a56e`
4:10 pm	Traffic and crashes	10 min	`43345096`
8:26 pm	Call for service	4 min	`a519660c`
8:34 pm	Call for service	7 min	`683ee034`
8:43 pm	Call for service	14 min	`0d3ffaee`
10:16 pm	Call for service	17 min	`f71a9da5`
11:13 pm	Call for service	2 min	`63f96435`
11:17 pm	Call for service	13 min	`b29b5cb5`
11:47 pm	Call for service	17 min	`ed71acc9`

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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