8
drone flights over Saint Paul that day.
12:10 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:36 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Saint Paul police drones flew 8 times on Friday 2 October 2026, the first at 12:10 am and the last at 9:36 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
8 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:10 am | Call for service | 17 min | b80e79e6 |
| 12:42 am | Call for service | 13 min | 6d0973d5 |
| 2:17 am | Call for service | 11 min | 6e5c6a32 |
| 6:13 am | Other | 16 min | 3af3465b |
| 11:46 am | Call for service | 7 min | 43b40448 |
| 7:17 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 9fb882fd |
| 9:06 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 00c839a0 |
| 9:36 pm | Other | 14 min | e10f796f |
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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