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  4. January 2026
  5. 22

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Thursday 22 January 2026

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

20

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

8:21 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:58 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 20 times on Thursday 22 January 2026, the first at 8:21 am and the last at 10:58 pm MST, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other65%
  2. Not stated25%
  3. Call for service10%

Flights, in order

20 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
8:21 amNot stated20 minLCPD-260
9:09 amCall for service21 minLCPD-260
10:21 amNot stated12 minLCPD-260
11:12 amOther5 minLCPD-260
11:38 amCall for service6 minLCPD-260
11:52 amOther21 minLCPD-260
12:07 pmOther26 minLCPD-260
12:30 pmNot stated12 minLCPD-260
2:23 pmOther17 minLCPD-260
2:54 pmNot stated8 minLCPD-260
3:34 pmOther18 minLCPD-260
3:48 pmNot stated26 minLCPD-260
4:57 pmOther20 minLCPD-260
5:43 pmOther22 minLCPD-260
6:25 pmOther13 minLCPD-260
7:01 pmOther22 minLCPD-260
7:56 pmOther11 minLCPD-260
10:20 pmOther8 minLCPD-260
10:30 pmOther21 minLCPD-260
10:58 pmOther9 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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