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  2. New Mexico
  3. Las Cruces
  4. March 2026
  5. 9

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Monday 9 March 2026

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

24

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

1:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:25 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 24 times on Monday 9 March 2026, the first at 1:20 am and the last at 11:25 pm MDT, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other62%
  2. Call for service21%
  3. Not stated12%
  4. Assisting another agency4%

Flights, in order

24 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 (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:20 amOther6 minLCPD-260
6:33 amCall for service21 minLCPD-260
7:03 amNot stated54 sLCPD-260
7:15 amCall for service20 minLCPD-260
8:51 amOther8 minLCPD-260
9:21 amOther15 minLCPD-260
9:33 amOther17 minLCPD-260
9:59 amOther15 minLCPD-260
10:26 amOther13 minLCPD-260
10:47 amNot stated48 sLCPD-260
11:20 amCall for service7 minLCPD-260
11:35 amNot stated16 minLCPD-260
12:58 pmOther14 minLCPD-260
2:07 pmOther10 minLCPD-260
2:44 pmCall for service16 minLCPD-260
3:34 pmAssisting another agency9 minLCPD-260
4:03 pmOther10 minLCPD-260
5:00 pmOther27 minLCPD-260
6:55 pmCall for service10 minLCPD-260
9:03 pmOther28 minLCPD-260
9:24 pmOther30 minLCPD-260
9:57 pmOther25 minLCPD-260
10:19 pmOther29 minLCPD-260
11:25 pmOther20 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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