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  4. January 2026
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Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Tuesday 20 January 2026

15 drone flights from Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

15

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

7:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:53 pm.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 15 times on Tuesday 20 January 2026, the first at 7:59 am and the last at 3:53 pm MST, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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, MST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated87%
  2. Other13%

Flights, in order

15 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 (MST)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:59 amNot stated18 minLCPD-260
8:39 amNot stated15 minLCPD-260
9:19 amNot stated20 minLCPD-260
10:27 amNot stated25 minLCPD-260
11:14 amNot stated22 minLCPD-260
11:27 amNot stated24 minLCPD-260
12:27 pmNot stated21 minLCPD-260
12:54 pmNot stated6 minLCPD-260
1:09 pmNot stated13 minLCPD-260
1:50 pmNot stated27 minLCPD-260
2:11 pmNot stated24 minLCPD-260
2:34 pmNot stated17 minLCPD-260
3:01 pmNot stated10 minLCPD-260
3:25 pmOther22 minLCPD-260
3:53 pmOther13 minLCPD-260

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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