drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

8:54 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:52 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 14 times on Tuesday 11 August 2026, the first at 8:54 am and the last at 11:52 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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 service86%
Search7%
Training and testing7%

Flights, in order

14 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
8:54 am	Call for service	12 min	`fc157c2f`
9:37 am	Call for service	14 min	`19f47184`
10:03 am	Call for service	7 min	`f1d15671`
1:25 pm	Search	16 min	`871ff838`
2:03 pm	Call for service	15 min	`d2883e83`
3:09 pm	Call for service	12 min	`14f0c34f`
4:24 pm	Call for service	7 min	`a16b3d03`
7:45 pm	Call for service	12 min	`6f20a0ee`
7:59 pm	Call for service	13 min	`be95cbf7`
8:23 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`7200e25b`
8:42 pm	Call for service	15 min	`313aa1c3`
10:14 pm	Call for service	16 min	`97a86ed2`
10:27 pm	Call for service	16 min	`56abbf4f`
11:52 pm	Call for service	9 min	`18bd7b14`

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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