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  3. Las Cruces
  4. January 2026
  5. 28

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Wednesday 28 January 2026

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

20

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

7:37 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:39 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 20 times on Wednesday 28 January 2026, the first at 7:37 am and the last at 8:39 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. Other50%
  2. Call for service30%
  3. Not stated20%

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
7:37 amOther22 minLCPD-260
8:29 amCall for service24 minLCPD-260
8:31 amCall for service18 minLCPD-260
9:49 amOther14 minLCPD-260
10:11 amCall for service11 minLCPD-260
10:46 amOther19 minLCPD-260
11:37 amOther2 minLCPD-260
11:42 amOther15 minLCPD-260
11:54 amNot stated16 minLCPD-260
12:38 pmNot stated14 minLCPD-260
12:54 pmCall for service10 minLCPD-260
1:11 pmNot stated14 minLCPD-260
1:59 pmOther21 minLCPD-260
2:11 pmCall for service16 minLCPD-260
2:49 pmNot stated9 minLCPD-260
3:15 pmOther9 minLCPD-260
4:03 pmCall for service18 minLCPD-260
5:00 pmOther17 minLCPD-260
6:02 pmOther10 minLCPD-260
8:39 pmOther22 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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