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Saint Paul, Minnesota · one day

Tuesday 25 August 2026

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

13

drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

12:48 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:17 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 13 times on Tuesday 25 August 2026, the first at 12:48 am and the last at 11:17 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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 service77%
  2. Training and testing23%

Flights, in order

13 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
12:48 amCall for service12 min98062d98
8:18 amCall for service8 min97c3224a
8:58 amTraining and testing16 minbd4af291
9:42 amTraining and testing15 min892c92c6
10:05 amTraining and testing1 min 31 sf91bf5b9
10:31 amCall for service9 min88590f55
4:17 pmCall for service12 min6b71583d
5:16 pmCall for service17 mincfd6d03b
8:35 pmCall for service16 min0bd13c49
9:39 pmCall for service18 min9de32106
9:51 pmCall for service18 min17338195
11:00 pmCall for service15 min3aa95b70
11:17 pmCall for service11 min64187f92

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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