drone flights over Laredo that day.

2:42 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:55 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Laredo police drones flew 17 times on Thursday 9 April 2026, the first at 2:42 pm and the last at 11:55 pm CDT, by Laredo Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service35%
Patrol support35%
Traffic and crashes12%
Not stated12%
Other6%

Flights, in order

17 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 (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
2:42 pm	Call for service	13 min	`ef03a0ee`
2:57 pm	Traffic and crashes	15 min	`d49b5697`
2:59 pm	Call for service	7 min	`5ba33dac`
3:19 pm	Other	9 min	`c6aa371b`
4:00 pm	Not stated	15 min	`130c4c56`
4:38 pm	Not stated	11 min	`5bbe625f`
6:24 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`8595a886`
7:14 pm	Call for service	8 min	`6f7ee289`
8:04 pm	Call for service	8 min	`5392bd20`
8:23 pm	Patrol support	9 min	`1420e4d8`
8:49 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`eddff3e8`
9:40 pm	Call for service	12 min	`53fca8af`
10:04 pm	Traffic and crashes	8 min	`08064a7a`
10:22 pm	Call for service	8 min	`d613ea79`
10:30 pm	Patrol support	6 min	`ec47a8b1`
10:58 pm	Patrol support	11 min	`310ff947`
11:55 pm	Patrol support	13 min	`99913768`

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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