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The St Paul Police Department’s new dock-based Drone as First Responder program flew 472 missions in its first four weeks, already passing the 436 patrol-drone flights the department logged in all of 2025.
The three rooftop Skydio X10 drones went live on May 30 and now reach calls in under 90 seconds, a number St Paul published this week with a list of arrests and rescues to back it. Minnesota now has at least five cities running or building DFR programs, and every one of them so far runs on Skydio. St Paul is the proof that once a department turns on the docks, the flight count does not creep up. It explodes.
The system put a Skydio X10 over each patrol district
St Paul mounted one Skydio X10 on a rooftop in each of its three patrol districts. DroneXL identified the aircraft from footage released by the department.
Each drone covers a two-mile radius from its dock and stays in the air 20 to 30 minutes per flight depending on conditions, according to the department. The X10 carries both color video and thermal imaging cameras, the standard pairing for night calls and rooftop pursuits…