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  4. July 2026
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Saint Paul, Minnesota · one day

Sunday 19 July 2026

17 drone flights from St. Paul Police Department's published record.

17

drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

12:02 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:43 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 17 times on Sunday 19 July 2026, the first at 12:02 am and the last at 11:43 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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

  1. Call for service94%
  2. Not stated6%

Flights, in order

17 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:02 amCall for service15 min12d4fe93
12:24 amCall for service8 min0bf69014
12:32 amCall for service6 min023c55de
1:06 amCall for service15 min35cc6283
1:22 amCall for service7 min33675cd5
4:19 pmCall for service14 min5ffbfb54
4:46 pmNot stated16 minb9cca0ca
8:04 pmCall for service9 mind81fcf08
8:20 pmCall for service11 minb7ba01f7
9:12 pmCall for service13 minb4dc847f
9:44 pmCall for service11 minf75bfb61
9:46 pmCall for service13 min759e3933
10:28 pmCall for service18 minc3537225
10:40 pmCall for service16 minb9212a33
10:58 pmCall for service5 min935b28cd
11:29 pmCall for service18 minf65a323d
11:43 pmCall for service13 mineae9a615

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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