Amsterdam
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
GVB
GVB, het gemeentelijke vervoerbedrijf van Amsterdam, houdt via cameratoezicht in metro's, trams, bussen, veren en op stations live toezicht vanuit een centrale meldkamer. Camerabeelden worden standaard 28 dagen bewaard en daarna automatisch gewist, tenzij beelden nodig zijn voor de afhandeling van een incident.
Gemeente Amsterdam
Op grond van artikel 151c van de Gemeentewet, in samenhang met artikel 2.24 van de Algemene Plaatselijke Verordening 2008, zet de burgemeester van Amsterdam cameratoezicht in ter handhaving van de openbare orde in aangewezen gebieden, nadat de gemeenteraad die bevoegdheid heeft verleend. Onderzoek en Statistiek van de gemeente onderzocht in een rapport uit januari 2026 de proportionaliteit van het cameratoezicht in 34 cameragebieden. Beelden worden maximaal vier weken bewaard, (live) uitgekeken vanuit de Centrale Cameratoezichtruimte, en camera's mogen niet op woningen worden gericht.
Sources: Gemeente Amsterdam, Beleidsregel cameratoezicht ter handhaving van de openbare orde in Amsterdam (geldend van 25-11-2022)Onderzoek en Statistiek Gemeente Amsterdam, Onderzoek cameratoezicht in Amsterdam 2025 (publicatie jan 2026)
Source: the public record. National Police and government publications, and municipal camera-surveillance policy decisions published in Dutch local regulation repositories; per-entry citations on each record · retrieved July 2026