drone flights over Rochester that day.

2:24 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:23 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 13 times on Thursday 27 August 2026, the first at 2:24 am and the last at 9:23 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.

One flight; takeoff and landing removed

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service69%
Events15%
Traffic and crashes8%
Not stated8%

Flights, in order

13 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.

Takeoff (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
2:24 am	Call for service	8 min	`3a5cb046`
8:19 am	Traffic and crashes	16 min	`25dafa37`
8:36 am	Events	8 min	`755cfce2`
12:20 pm	Events	6 min	`fa085873`
1:46 pm	Call for service	9 min	`6d3ecef2`
3:36 pm	Call for service	17 min	`1f5eea14`
4:05 pm	Not stated	17 min	`7dedd240`
5:58 pm	Call for service	21 min	`b40425c7`
6:45 pm	Call for service	16 min	`fbbeed82`
7:46 pm	Call for service	17 min	`217eef4e`
8:12 pm	Call for service	7 min	`b1cfb9f0`
8:23 pm	Call for service	10 min	`9dc72c95`
9:23 pm	Call for service	15 min	`d6ff4a40`

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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