New South Wales

2 Deployments on record

2 Technology categories

Technology presence

ANPR · 1 Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record Face recognition · none on record Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · none on record Doorbell & camera registry · none on record Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record

Full entity record on UnGovr: New South Wales Police Force

ANPR

Fixed and mobile automatic number plate recognition, in use since the state's first fixed-camera pilot in 2005 and a mobile (MANPR) rollout beginning in 2009.

Sources: Australian Privacy Foundation, ANPR policy analysis

Drones / UAS

PolAir-Remote: remotely piloted drones housed in a rooftop docking unit at Moree Police Station, flown from a Remote Operations Centre at Bankstown Airport. Installed 8 January 2026 and officially launched 19 February 2026 as a six-month trial, described by NSW Police as the first Australian police use of drones piloted without an on-site operator.

Sources: Mirage News, Australia debuts PolAir-Remote in Moree (Feb 2026)Moree Online News, Australian-first policing drone capability launches in Moree (Feb 2026)

Source: the public record. Australian police-force and government publications, regulator decisions, and Victorian Government open data (Road Safety Camera Network dataset, CC BY 4.0); per-entry citations on each record · retrieved July 2026