Mobile digital road safety cameras are placed at approved locations across Victoria. They help reduce speeding and make our roads safer.
Mobile digital road safety cameras can be installed in unmarked vehicles and on trailers.
Cameras in vehicles
Mobile digital road safety cameras can be installed in unmarked vehicles. Although they are not sign-posted, vehicles are not deliberately hidden. This is part of an 'anywhere, anytime' approach, meaning they can operate at any location and at any time. This helps encourage drivers to follow the speed limit at all times, not just where cameras are visible.
Cameras on trailers
Introduced in 2026, mobile digital road safety camera trailers use the same technology as vehicle-based mobile digital road safety cameras and use the same rules for choosing locations.
Mobile digital road safety camera trailers can be used:
- in places where camera vehicles cannot operate
- for longer periods
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This helps increase coverage across the state, especially in high‑risk areas.
How mobile digital road safety cameras work
Mobile digital road safety cameras use radar technology to measure the speed and direction of vehicles.
The Victorian Government uses Gatso T-Series mobile digital road safety cameras.
These cameras can:
- monitor more than 6 lanes of traffic
- detect vehicles travelling in both directions
- detect multiple vehicles at the same time.
The mobile digital road safety camera works at any time of day or night and in all weather conditions.
If a vehicle is speeding, the camera takes an image to record the offence. A yellow triangle is added to the image to show which vehicle was detected speeding. This helps identify the correct vehicle when there are multiple vehicles or busy traffic conditions.
Images used as evidence for a speeding infringement include this vehicle marker which is visible in the images included in an infringement notice.
Camera accuracy
Mobile digital road safety cameras are carefully checked before and after each session.
A trained operator:
- confirms the speed limit and site boundaries
- takes test shots to make sure the camera is working properly.
For more information about camera accuracy and the checks completed before a fine is issued, visit road safety camera accuracy.
Operating guidelines
Victoria Police follow clear rules to ensure the road safety camera program operates effectively, is consistently managed and is trusted by the community. These rules are clearly documented and followed through operating guidelines for using mobile digital road safety cameras.
The guidelines state that:
- the camera vehicle or trailer can be parked on a footpath, nature strip, dividing strip or in a timed parking zone
- there are no legal or technical limits on using the camera on hills, slopes or gradients.
Penalties
If you are caught speeding by a mobile digital road safety camera, you may get:
- a fine and demerit points
- a licence suspension.
Learn more about fines, demerit points and licence suspensions.
Camera locations
Mobile digital road safety cameras are operated by Victoria Police.
Victoria Police decide where and when to use them based on risk. The highest priority is given to:
- locations where serious crashes have happened
- areas where speeding is a known problem.
A list of approved mobile digital road safety camera locations is published each month.
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