7
drone flights over Saint Paul that day.
2:12 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:35 pm.
17 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Saint Paul police drones flew 7 times on Monday 31 August 2026, the first at 2:12 am and the last at 10:35 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:12 am | Call for service | 16 min | 1b358fab |
| 2:15 am | Call for service | 18 min | 8bab9c83 |
| 11:05 am | Call for service | 8 min | bc29e45f |
| 12:20 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 3ba260f4 |
| 9:22 pm | Call for service | 10 min | bd1e7f91 |
| 10:21 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 7a18938a |
| 10:35 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 1533fd86 |
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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