8
drone flights over Saint Paul that day.
2:40 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:01 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Saint Paul police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 4 August 2026, the first at 2:40 am and the last at 11:01 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:40 am | Call for service | 17 min | 09c3a4f0 |
| 7:52 am | Call for service | 8 min | ddd13beb |
| 1:38 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 2692deec |
| 7:17 pm | Not stated | 16 min | e4c85de9 |
| 7:55 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 4ee6dfaa |
| 8:04 pm | Search | 19 min | d9929d8e |
| 8:57 pm | Call for service | 12 min | e12b2ef8 |
| 11:01 pm | Not stated | 5 min | 62bf6a68 |
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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