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  4. January 2026
  5. 30

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Friday 30 January 2026

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

23

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

7:49 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:54 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 23 times on Friday 30 January 2026, the first at 7:49 am and the last at 11:54 pm MST, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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. Not stated52%
  2. Other39%
  3. Call for service9%

Flights, in order

23 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
7:49 amNot stated16 minLCPD-260
8:47 amNot stated6 minLCPD-260
10:17 amOther10 minLCPD-260
10:33 amNot stated4 minLCPD-260
10:58 amNot stated19 minLCPD-260
12:09 pmNot stated6 minLCPD-260
12:23 pmNot stated14 minLCPD-260
1:05 pmNot stated15 minLCPD-260
1:36 pmNot stated6 minLCPD-260
2:46 pmCall for service20 minLCPD-260
3:10 pmCall for service11 minLCPD-260
6:37 pmNot stated24 minLCPD-260
6:58 pmOther12 minLCPD-260
7:25 pmOther24 minLCPD-260
7:45 pmNot stated25 minLCPD-260
8:05 pmNot stated17 minLCPD-260
8:28 pmOther19 minLCPD-260
9:35 pmNot stated18 minLCPD-260
10:21 pmOther12 minLCPD-260
10:40 pmOther16 minLCPD-260
11:06 pmOther12 minLCPD-260
11:30 pmOther10 minLCPD-260
11:54 pmOther6 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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