8
drone flights over Rochester that day.
10:22 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:01 pm.
16 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 8 times on Monday 3 August 2026, the first at 10:22 am and the last at 3:01 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:22 am | Call for service | 6 min | 17a8318c |
| 12:00 pm | Training and testing | 19 min | 8e202c19 |
| 12:00 pm | Training and testing | 13 min | d72c565b |
| 12:24 pm | Training and testing | 18 min | 8d01d89a |
| 12:46 pm | Training and testing | 18 min | bf8d184f |
| 1:31 pm | Training and testing | 6 min | 0646dae3 |
| 1:42 pm | Call for service | 11 min | c8c6720c |
| 3:01 pm | Call for service | 22 min | 5f6a8e28 |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- 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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