Christchurch City
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Deployments on record
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Technology categories
Technology presence
ANPR · 1
Fixed cameras & RTCC · none on record
Face recognition · none on record
Drones / UAS · none on record
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
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
ANPR
Christchurch City Council operates 45 automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) CCTV devices, 17 used for council enforcement purposes and 28 for crime prevention monitored by New Zealand Police, per the Council's own May 2024 Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA) response.
Sources: Christchurch City Council LGOIMA response, published via FYI (9 May 2024)
Source: the public record. New Zealand Police and government publications, council tenders, and council Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA) responses; per-entry citations on each record · retrieved July 2026