drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

12:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:33 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 9 times on Wednesday 8 July 2026, the first at 12:19 am and the last at 10:33 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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 service89%
Not stated11%

Flights, in order

9 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
12:19 am	Call for service	16 min	`694164dc`
2:47 pm	Call for service	17 min	`ca4036a2`
6:11 pm	Call for service	37 s	`ed75c2fb`
6:36 pm	Call for service	11 min	`b36eafe2`
8:04 pm	Not stated	9 min	`bc48f926`
8:20 pm	Call for service	13 min	`cf371f87`
9:43 pm	Call for service	12 min	`c30b3f6a`
10:10 pm	Call for service	7 min	`8b66c64a`
10:33 pm	Call for service	12 min	`a5d2b5b0`

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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