CityDroneWatch
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  2. New Mexico
  3. Las Cruces
  4. January 2026
  5. 26

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Monday 26 January 2026

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

25

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

9:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:27 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 25 times on Monday 26 January 2026, the first at 9:06 am and the last at 9:27 pm MST, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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. Other60%
  2. Not stated24%
  3. Call for service16%

Flights, in order

25 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
9:06 amNot stated18 minLCPD-260
10:11 amOther16 minLCPD-260
10:40 amOther15 minLCPD-260
10:47 amCall for service17 minLCPD-260
11:17 amOther16 minLCPD-260
11:40 amCall for service25 minLCPD-260
11:57 amCall for service12 minLCPD-260
1:02 pmNot stated15 minLCPD-260
1:30 pmOther16 minLCPD-260
2:02 pmNot stated1 min 54 sLCPD-260
2:14 pmNot stated26 minLCPD-260
2:42 pmNot stated42 sLCPD-260
2:57 pmOther20 minLCPD-260
3:37 pmOther11 minLCPD-260
4:38 pmCall for service21 minLCPD-260
5:07 pmOther6 minLCPD-260
5:27 pmNot stated12 minLCPD-260
6:03 pmOther21 minLCPD-260
6:46 pmOther12 minLCPD-260
7:18 pmOther25 minLCPD-260
7:46 pmOther24 minLCPD-260
8:11 pmOther23 minLCPD-260
8:37 pmOther24 minLCPD-260
9:02 pmOther23 minLCPD-260
9:27 pmOther25 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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