drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

12:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:27 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 15 times on Monday 13 July 2026, the first at 12:05 am and the last at 11:27 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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 service73%
Not stated20%
Training and testing7%

Flights, in order

15 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
12:05 am	Call for service	11 min	`ad02db3a`
9:34 am	Call for service	4 min	`c8e36b55`
2:10 pm	Call for service	10 min	`0fe5adbd`
3:13 pm	Call for service	18 min	`2113a646`
3:24 pm	Not stated	20 min	`f2a3dd4d`
4:52 pm	Call for service	12 min	`85b5204f`
5:25 pm	Training and testing	1 min 43 s	`3c2ffe9e`
7:47 pm	Call for service	11 min	`a3b55303`
9:02 pm	Not stated	7 min	`a80f6bb4`
9:28 pm	Not stated	11 min	`e4ec89ac`
9:59 pm	Call for service	12 min	`522f6057`
10:31 pm	Call for service	7 min	`6b3114e0`
10:45 pm	Call for service	6 min	`a6ee76a1`
10:48 pm	Call for service	12 min	`ec7ce20d`
11:27 pm	Call for service	5 min	`a15181f1`

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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