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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Greater East Side, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 42 of the 2,254 flights in St. Paul Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

42

drone flights crossed Greater East Side.

42

of them in August 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Greater East Side 42 times between 3 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by St. Paul Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

42 of the 42 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Greater East SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

9 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

19% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 42 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service81%
  2. Search14%
  3. Not stated2%
  4. Training and testing2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 3 Aug 202612:39 amCall for service14 min743dee55
Mon 3 Aug 202610:36 pmCall for service12 mined41672b
Wed 5 Aug 20261:55 amNot stated12 min33617105
Wed 5 Aug 20269:59 amCall for service14 min012938ac
Wed 5 Aug 20264:17 pmCall for service14 mine8e7a90b
Wed 5 Aug 20269:20 pmCall for service8 min0a058112
Fri 7 Aug 20263:29 pmCall for service8 min343960fe
Fri 7 Aug 20268:00 pmSearch16 min00237fc4
Fri 7 Aug 202611:45 pmCall for service13 min1ec8b013
Sat 8 Aug 20261:48 amCall for service15 mina59aa448
Sat 8 Aug 202612:31 pmCall for service15 mind50d950c
Sun 9 Aug 20262:14 amCall for service12 min53930ede
Sun 9 Aug 20264:23 pmCall for service16 minafc40c62
Sun 9 Aug 20269:06 pmCall for service14 min34ccda8e
Wed 12 Aug 20267:11 pmTraining and testing19 min90df9d6e
Thu 13 Aug 20268:38 pmCall for service9 min5e80e512
Fri 14 Aug 20266:05 pmSearch9 min1f7493af
Sat 15 Aug 20263:30 pmCall for service14 min8ed2d2c3
Sat 15 Aug 20267:50 pmCall for service7 min847e91f5
Mon 17 Aug 20263:46 pmCall for service12 min7d7caa4f
Mon 17 Aug 20264:26 pmSearch16 minbed5835a
Mon 17 Aug 20265:21 pmSearch6 min1b2ffc76
Wed 19 Aug 20266:44 amCall for service12 mind049b34c
Wed 19 Aug 202612:29 pmSearch13 minbd9f5605
Wed 19 Aug 20267:43 pmCall for service14 min8f4624e1
Thu 20 Aug 20269:13 pmCall for service17 minb11d9e9e
Fri 21 Aug 20265:10 pmCall for service15 min185b3925
Sat 22 Aug 20268:34 amCall for service13 minc501b758
Sat 22 Aug 202612:38 pmCall for service5 minbd77cdf5
Sun 23 Aug 202612:21 pmSearch7 minf770befc
Sun 23 Aug 20264:48 pmCall for service9 min692abafb
Sun 23 Aug 20265:10 pmCall for service12 minb5afb4cc
Sun 23 Aug 20269:07 pmCall for service10 minc39a73ef
Sun 23 Aug 20269:46 pmCall for service14 min241a8e91
Mon 24 Aug 20263:27 pmCall for service14 mincedd9166
Mon 24 Aug 20268:25 pmCall for service12 min0a2d871e
Tue 25 Aug 20265:16 pmCall for service17 mincfd6d03b
Wed 26 Aug 20264:17 pmCall for service16 min7188c57d
Sat 29 Aug 20262:04 pmCall for service12 min7b9128a0
Sat 29 Aug 20265:17 pmCall for service13 min538c2c94
Mon 31 Aug 202610:21 pmCall for service19 min7a18938a
Mon 31 Aug 202610:35 pmCall for service17 min1533fd86

All 42 flights in August 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

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.
  • Boundary. "Greater East Side" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Saint Paul (District Councils / Planning Districts), licence "Public Domain".
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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