3
drone flights crossed Central Northeast.
3
of them in October 2025.
18 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Central Northeast 3 times between 4 October 2025 and 16 October 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 16 October 2025.
1 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).
0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.
Why, in the agency's words
The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 3 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, October 2025
| Date | Takeoff (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 4 Oct 2025 | 3:37 pm | Call for service | 22 min | accdcd09 |
| Sat 4 Oct 2025 | 3:54 pm | Patrol support | 18 min | 32b65c17 |
| Thu 16 Oct 2025 | 2:59 pm | Call for service | 7 min | cecab128 |
All 3 flights in October 2025. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
- 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
- Boundary. "Central Northeast" is a planning area polygon from City of Philadelphia (Planning Districts), licence "City of Philadelphia GIS disclaimer (provided as is; no license stated)". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
- A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.
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