drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

2:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:12 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 15 times on Monday 17 August 2026, the first at 2:20 am and the last at 11:12 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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 service67%
Search27%
Not stated7%

Flights, in order

15 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
2:20 am	Call for service	19 min	`425bb735`
2:53 am	Call for service	6 min	`fd1fdf25`
12:09 pm	Call for service	15 min	`fd6bb80c`
2:22 pm	Call for service	7 min	`544b3107`
2:41 pm	Call for service	14 min	`52639631`
3:46 pm	Call for service	12 min	`7d7caa4f`
4:26 pm	Search	16 min	`bed5835a`
4:44 pm	Search	15 min	`a8c8219e`
5:21 pm	Search	6 min	`1b2ffc76`
6:12 pm	Search	18 min	`b0925c40`
8:35 pm	Call for service	10 min	`435a5cc9`
8:56 pm	Call for service	8 min	`1e71545c`
8:56 pm	Call for service	3 min	`98614622`
10:20 pm	Call for service	15 min	`e4f39966`
11:12 pm	Not stated	19 min	`068023a1`

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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