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Saint Paul, Minnesota · one day

Sunday 2 August 2026

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

26

drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

12:09 am

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

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 26 times on Sunday 2 August 2026, the first at 12:09 am and the last at 11:27 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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 service81%
  2. Not stated12%
  3. Training and testing8%

Flights, in order

26 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
12:09 amCall for service12 min4dae8472
12:55 amCall for service11 mine53bac9c
1:13 amCall for service10 minf1d015cc
1:27 amCall for service19 min09a0a961
2:02 amTraining and testing9 min665e8c39
7:33 amTraining and testing9 min27bbecc7
8:32 amCall for service8 min312678e3
8:43 amNot stated8 min7b5be6de
8:57 amNot stated22 min31696d9b
9:13 amCall for service13 min2ea42e1c
9:50 amCall for service16 min6d2f871b
10:32 amCall for service9 min906704ce
10:44 amCall for service6 min9718baee
11:47 amCall for service20 minc1be1a55
1:45 pmCall for service8 min8834e5ee
3:45 pmCall for service15 minc0e83555
5:11 pmCall for service8 mincbd51b95
5:42 pmCall for service15 min00815dd5
6:53 pmNot stated6 min8d89236a
6:58 pmCall for service1 min 30 s8341e52e
7:24 pmCall for service16 min72c69193
8:02 pmCall for service11 mind4566f8d
10:19 pmCall for service14 min0d376456
10:39 pmCall for service14 minc50ae919
10:57 pmCall for service6 min24a12832
11:27 pmCall for service11 mine96fff4a

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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