Tasmania
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ANPR
- Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle number plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by operator
Tasmania Police
The fleet had supported more than 1,400 operations by 2023, covering vehicle pursuits, search and rescue and crash reconstruction, and remains in active use for traffic enforcement. A drone capability grown to more than 30 DJI aircraft worth $860,000 by March 2023, including units with heat-mapping sensors, flown by 29 CASA-certified pilots based in Hobart, Launceston, Burnie, Devonport and Sorell. This capability has been operating since mid-2019.
Sources: Pulse Tasmania, 30 new police drones take to Tasmanian skies (Mar 2023)Spatial Source, more trained drone operators for Tasmania Police (Nov 2021)Tasmania Police, drones assisted in detecting hooning motorists (Oct 2024)
More than 750 Axon body-worn cameras reached King and Flinders Island by March 2020, every mainland station by December 2019, and were rolled out in stages from August 2018 under a $3.4 million election commitment. Cameras are worn on the front of high-visibility vests, with footage managed on Axon's Evidence.com platform.
Sources: Tasmania Police, body worn camerasGovernment Technology Review, Tasmania completes body-worn camera deployment (Jul 2020)
Automatic number plate recognition cameras and software, purchased under a September 2009 road-toll reduction package, with one ANPR-equipped vehicle deployed to each police district. Passing plates are checked against watch lists for stolen, unregistered and disqualified-driver vehicles.
Sources: Tasmania Police, automatic number plate recognition
City of Hobart CCTV network
Since 19 September 2024 a dedicated portal at Hobart Police Station has given Tasmania Police real-time viewing, playback and export access; on its first day the portal was used to locate a suspect in the CBD. The City of Hobart's network delivers about 330 camera views across the municipality, including 83 fixed and 2 semi-permanent cameras added to the CBD in 2024.
Sources: Tasmania Police, real-time access to CCTV footage in Hobart (Sep 2024)
Source: the public record. Australian police-force and government publications, regulator decisions, and Victorian Government open data (Road Safety Camera Network dataset); per-entry citations on each record · retrieved July 2026