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Saint Paul, Minnesota

West Side, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 11 of the 2,254 flights in St. Paul Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

11

drone flights crossed West Side.

11

of them in September 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed West Side 11 times between 4 September 2026 and 25 September 2026, by St. Paul Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 September 2026.

11 of the 11 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.
West SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

18% 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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service73%
  2. Search18%
  3. Not stated9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 4 Sep 202612:31 amCall for service12 min5c6120aa
Fri 4 Sep 20266:23 amCall for service13 min95f31e6b
Sat 5 Sep 20268:57 pmCall for service11 mincdaefa8c
Sun 6 Sep 20265:41 pmCall for service15 mind95ce417
Thu 10 Sep 202610:49 amCall for service13 minebd89bf5
Mon 14 Sep 20263:39 pmNot stated17 min7c94b27c
Tue 15 Sep 20268:19 amSearch14 min15623802
Thu 17 Sep 20269:15 pmCall for service10 min7df0480c
Fri 18 Sep 20267:00 amCall for service17 min7dc79531
Mon 21 Sep 20263:01 pmSearch13 min63d97d1f
Fri 25 Sep 202611:02 pmCall for service12 min68bb5f25

All 11 flights in September 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. "West 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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