Victoria
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
Victoria Police
A December 2025 road-policing package added 88 more ANPR-equipped vehicles as part of a $21.1 million investment. Vehicle-mounted automatic number plate recognition rolled out from early 2019 under a $17.3 million five-year managed-service contract with Motorola Solutions covering about 220 highway patrol vehicles, each able to scan roughly 5,000 plates a day.
Sources: Premier of Victoria, road-policing investment announcement (Dec 2025)iTnews, Victorian highway patrol ANPR rollout (Oct 2018)
By December 2019, 9,159 of the 11,000 devices were in operational use statewide. 11,000 Axon Body 2 cameras with a five-year Evidence.com digital evidence subscription were deployed from April 2018 to frontline officers, protective services officers and specialist units under a $42.6 million program tied to a Family Violence Royal Commission recommendation. Highway patrol vehicles also carry digital in-car video, expanded to as many as 140 units under a 2015 fleet refresh.
Sources: iTnews, Victoria Police completes body-worn camera rollout (Dec 2019)Axon press release, 11,000 Axon Body 2 cameras for Victoria Police (Feb 2018)CarsGuide, police in-car video expansion in Victoria (Sep 2015)
The Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Unit within the Air Wing has operated since 2019 and has grown to more than 140 trained pilots flying more than 130 drones, including three specialist Matrice aircraft and 12 general-use Mavic Enterprise units. The unit conducts about 400 flights a month and has completed more than 15,000 jobs, spanning suspect searches, warrant risk assessment, missing-person searches, collision documentation and lidar sensing in homicide investigations.
A 2016 contract with Morpho, later Idemia, expanded facial capture equipment to as many as 92 stations. A 2013 review recorded about 20,000 searches and 6,000 positive identifications a year against a database growing by roughly 120,000 images annually. iFace, an internal facial recognition system introduced in 2013, compares booking photographs against the force's image database rather than live CCTV feeds.
Sources: iTnews, criminals outed by Victoria Police facial recognition (Mar 2013)Biometric Update, Victoria Police Morpho LiveScan expansion (Jan 2016)
City of Melbourne Safe City Camera Program
Council and the state government are jointly funding more than 100 additional cameras. The program shared more than 10,000 pieces of footage with police between 2018 and 2024. Victoria Police's Monitoring Assessment Centre has been able to pull live feeds directly from the network since December 2016. The Safe City Camera Program has grown from 23 cameras at its 1997 launch to 328 cameras across 126 locations in the CBD, Carlton, Docklands and Southbank, monitored around the clock from a dedicated control room.
Sources: City of Melbourne, safe city camerasDocklands News, Safe City camera program reforms (2026)
Transport Victoria (Traffic Operations Centre)
The state Traffic Operations Centre monitors more than 1,600 traffic cameras across the Victorian road network, independently of policing.
Victorian Government road safety camera program (Cameras Save Lives)
Mobile road safety cameras operate at approximately 2,000 locations across the state road network; the monthly camera-location list is published as open data under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Sources: Victorian Government, mobile road safety camera locationsdata.vic.gov.au, Road Safety Camera Network dataset
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