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SFPD drone flights in Seacliff

Flights since May 16, 2024; the latest in the city's log is from Aug 31, 2026 · source updated Sep 25, 2026.

SFPD flew 6 operational drone flights to calls in Seacliff in the twelve months to Aug 2026, 0% of the 6,464 citywide. That is 2.4 per 1,000 residents, 0.4× the citywide rate, rank 26 of 38 neighborhoods. Several flights can serve one call: these served 6 dispatch events.

Where drones were sent: the intersections with the most operational flights. Each dot is the intersection of a call in Seacliff drones were sent to, sized by operational flights, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026.
Intersection	Flights
32nd Ave & El Camino Del Mar	2
25th Ave & Seacliff Ave	1
26th Ave & Seacliff Ave	1
30th Ave & El Camino Del Mar	1
El Camino Del Mar & Lake St	1

What the flights were for. Seacliff, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026: 6 flights to calls here. Gray figures are citywide. Drone sent is the share of all police calls of that type in Seacliff that had a flight, shown where there were at least 20 calls.
Reason	Flights	Share	Citywide
Criminal Investigation	5	83%	83%
Fire / Mutual Aid	1	17%	2%

Call types that got a drone.
Call type	Flights	Share	Citywide	Calls	Drone sent
AUTO BOOST / STRIP	1	20%	6%	8	— (4%)
BURGLARY	1	20%	9%	23	4% (3%)
MARINE	1	20%	—	2	— (33%)
PROWLER	1	20%	—	4	— (7%)
SILENT ALARM	1	20%	—	6	— (0%)

The calls that got a drone. Calls in Seacliff that got a drone, with the citywide figure beside it.
	Share	Calls
Priority A calls	67% (citywide 63%)	Priority A 4, B 2, C 0
Officer-initiated	0% (citywide 32%)	Officer on view 0, resident call 6

How calls with a drone ended. Resident calls in Seacliff that got a drone, by the month of the call. SFPD plans a SoMa pilot this fall in which officers watching drone footage decide whether an officer is needed on site (Mission Local). Percentages appear for months with at least 20 calls.
Month	Calls with a drone	No officer on scene	Cancelled	Priority lowered
Aug 2026	1	0	0	0
May 2026	2	0	0	0
Mar 2026	1	0	0	0
Feb 2026	1	0	0	0
Aug 2025	1	0	0	0
All months since Aug 2025	6	0	0	0

Neighborhoods ranked by flights per resident. Operational flights per 1,000 residents, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026. Citywide counts the flights to calls with a known location, divided by the whole city's residents. Areas under 1,000 residents are listed last, without a rate.
#	Neighborhood	Per 1,000 residents	× citywide	Flights	Dispatch events
	Citywide	6.7	1.0×	5,530
1	South of Market	32.1	4.8×	829	550
2	Financial District/South Beach	18.8	2.8×	460	293
3	Tenderloin	18.8	2.8×	602	370
4	Mission	15.8	2.4×	868	546
5	North Beach	10.6	1.6×	118	71
6	Presidio	9.7	1.5×	38	12
7	Bayview Hunters Point	9.0	1.3×	338	198
8	Chinatown	8.0	1.2×	97	43
9	Treasure Island	7.8	1.2×	19	13
10	Mission Bay	7.3	1.1×	128	90
11	Western Addition	7.1	1.1×	159	111
12	Japantown	6.7	1.0×	27	19
13	Nob Hill	6.7	1.0×	158	79
14	Hayes Valley	6.3	0.9×	119	80
15	Lakeshore	5.8	0.9×	70	35
16	Russian Hill	5.8	0.9×	101	50
17	Potrero Hill	5.6	0.8×	90	53
18	Castro/Upper Market	5.0	0.8×	110	79
19	Pacific Heights	4.5	0.7×	102	53
20	Marina	4.5	0.7×	104	73
21	Portola	4.3	0.6×	63	35
22	Bernal Heights	4.0	0.6×	96	49
23	Twin Peaks	3.4	0.5×	26	14
24	Presidio Heights	2.6	0.4×	26	21
25	Inner Richmond	2.6	0.4×	53	17
26	Seacliff	2.4	0.4×	6	6
27	Noe Valley	2.3	0.3×	51	32
28	Outer Richmond	2.3	0.3×	97	61
29	Visitacion Valley	2.2	0.3×	37	29
30	Lone Mountain/USF	2.1	0.3×	33	25
31	Excelsior	2.0	0.3×	76	30
32	Inner Sunset	1.9	0.3×	52	29
33	Haight Ashbury	1.9	0.3×	32	26
34	Sunset/Parkside	1.7	0.3×	129	84
35	Glen Park	1.6	0.2×	14	13
36	Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside	1.4	0.2×	34	20
37	West of Twin Peaks	1.3	0.2×	48	28
38	Outer Mission	1.2	0.2×	26	15
—	Golden Gate Park	—	—	81	38
—	McLaren Park	—	—	9	7
—	Lincoln Park	—	—	4	3

Method

Source: SFPD Drone Flight Logs (giw5-ttjs on DataSF), one row per flight since May 16, 2024. Flights logged as training or testing are not counted as operational. The log has recorded them only since September 2025. Each flight is placed at the location of its call in the police dispatch data, matched by CAD number, the same way the police page places calls. The log's own location is the general area of the operation and can be a launch site, so it is not used. 85% of operational flights match a dispatch record with a location. The rest count citywide only. A month appears once the city's log covers its last day. The 12-week and 4-week periods end at the latest flight in the log. Until September 2025 the reason for a flight was free text. Since then it is one of a few set categories. Where the log gives an incident report number instead of a CAD number, as it often did before October 2025, the flight is linked through that report's CAD number. For each call type, the share with a drone counts police calls of that original type, minus duplicates but including cancelled calls, that had a flight on the day of the call or the next day. About one linked flight in ten comes later, as a follow-up investigation, and is not counted in that share or in the month-by-month table. Rates divide by the 2020–2024 American Community Survey population. Drones are sent to serious, active incidents, so these calls are not typical police calls. Nothing here is compared with response times.

SFPD drone flights

SFPD drone flights in Seacliff

Method

Operational flights per month

Citywide

Where drones were sent

Most flights

What the flights were for

Stated reason

Call type of the linked dispatch

The calls that got a drone

How calls with a drone ended

Neighborhoods ranked by flights per resident