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Saint Paul, Minnesota · one day

Tuesday 15 September 2026

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

16

drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

12:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:42 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 16 times on Tuesday 15 September 2026, the first at 12:25 am and the last at 11:42 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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 service88%
  2. Search6%
  3. Not stated6%

Flights, in order

16 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
12:25 amCall for service15 min89e6a35c
12:37 amCall for service13 min41544e5c
1:51 amCall for service10 min22dacb4d
8:19 amSearch14 min15623802
9:20 amCall for service16 min3ef221b8
10:20 amCall for service14 min6d579b70
11:26 amCall for service5 min289bebe4
11:27 amCall for service4 min936bdea4
12:24 pmNot stated17 min6c8e159e
1:44 pmCall for service14 min2ed21a29
5:58 pmCall for service13 mindc236621
6:19 pmCall for service14 minf9f70587
8:01 pmCall for service8 minc76d3910
9:47 pmCall for service10 minfd71f0b8
11:02 pmCall for service16 minec58d5e2
11:42 pmCall for service12 min29b9fe62

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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