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Saint Paul, Minnesota · one day

Monday 20 July 2026

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

12

drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

10:41 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:38 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 12 times on Monday 20 July 2026, the first at 10:41 am and the last at 11:38 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service100%

Flights, in order

12 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
10:41 amCall for service16 min35d4bd2f
11:18 amCall for service15 min585a16d2
2:36 pmCall for service18 mind8036e4e
3:09 pmCall for service5 min5621cda6
5:20 pmCall for service5 min89daf412
6:35 pmCall for service10 min3051878a
8:31 pmCall for service7 min82501c3b
8:57 pmCall for service9 min1fbab6c3
10:07 pmCall for service9 minda31302f
10:31 pmCall for service6 minbf4804ac
10:49 pmCall for service10 min48ff772b
11:38 pmCall for service13 mind93adb1b

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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