drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

12:48 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 14 times on Sunday 28 June 2026, the first at 12:48 am and the last at 11:58 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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

Not stated57%
Call for service43%

Flights, in order

14 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
12:48 am	Not stated	9 min	`526bfb34`
1:26 am	Not stated	10 min	`f46c92a2`
5:42 pm	Call for service	6 min	`a50913e6`
7:39 pm	Not stated	9 min	`c21ab41f`
8:36 pm	Call for service	13 min	`829b893c`
9:47 pm	Call for service	15 min	`c0f45910`
9:58 pm	Not stated	16 min	`79988391`
10:22 pm	Not stated	11 min	`905693fe`
10:40 pm	Call for service	17 min	`93d25b9f`
10:43 pm	Not stated	4 min	`5692fb0d`
10:56 pm	Not stated	9 min	`db4dd5bb`
11:34 pm	Not stated	12 min	`0ce0bf96`
11:44 pm	Call for service	8 min	`3dbaaf9a`
11:58 pm	Call for service	5 min	`ffec81ec`

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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