9
drone flights over Saint Paul that day.
12:16 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:47 pm.
10 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Saint Paul police drones flew 9 times on Friday 21 August 2026, the first at 12:16 am and the last at 10:47 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:16 am | Call for service | 7 min | dcb499b9 |
| 12:42 am | Call for service | 6 min | 105e4e00 |
| 1:53 am | Call for service | 13 min | 381229e1 |
| 9:38 am | Training and testing | 10 min | 47224657 |
| 9:49 am | Training and testing | 5 min | 928b1c5a |
| 5:10 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 185b3925 |
| 6:25 pm | Call for service | 3 min | de0dc990 |
| 7:06 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 275e11fe |
| 10:47 pm | Call for service | 12 min | bee87d5e |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- 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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