8
drone flights over Rochester that day.
4:58 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:11 pm.
19 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 8 times on Friday 25 September 2026, the first at 4:58 pm and the last at 11:11 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:58 pm | Search | 23 min | e445ef07 |
| 6:21 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 8600203d |
| 7:41 pm | Traffic and crashes | 18 min | ef95c4c5 |
| 8:10 pm | Call for service | 22 min | 7e5cf06e |
| 9:34 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 3007ec12 |
| 9:46 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 117e02e4 |
| 10:12 pm | Events | 19 min | 50e9f632 |
| 11:11 pm | Call for service | 13 min | f06d6ad3 |
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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