As part of our ongoing commitment to community safety and well-being and targeting individuals who pose an elevated risk to the safety, security and wellness of Greater Sudbury, the Greater Sudbury Police Service (GSPS) has used funds received from the Government of Ontario Closed-circuit Television (CCTV) Grant program to purchase and install stationary Automated Licence Plate Reader (ALPR) systems at 16 strategic locations within our community.

The locations of the ALPR systems are as follows:

  1. Elm Street at Regent Street
  2. Paris Street/Long Lake Road at Regent Street
  3. Notre Dame Avenue at Kathleen Street
  4. Magill Street at Municipal Road 55
  5. Municipal Road 55 at Big Nickel Road
  6. Lasalle Boulevard at Notre Dame Avenue
  7. Falconbridge Road at Lasalle Boulevard
  8. Kingsway Boulevard at Barrydowne Road
  9. Paris Street at Brady Street
  10. Regent Street at Cam Street
  11. Kingsway Boulevard at Sudbury Landfill Road
  12. Municipal Road 35 at Pilon Street
  13. Maley Drive at Falconbridge Road
  14. Regional Road 55 at Regional Road 24
  15. Lorne Street at Kelly Lake Road
  16. Barrydowne Road at Lasalle Boulevard

The overall objectives of stationary ALPR systems are public safety and holding offenders accountable.  ALPR Systems are effective evidentiary tools that will assist with time sensitive and intelligence-led investigations and will provide increased operational and investigative efficiencies for law enforcement.

High resolution cameras placed at these strategic locations will allow for the reading and recording of rear licence plates of vehicles travelling through the noted locations. The cameras are pointed downwards, therefore do not capture images of individuals within the vehicle. 

Designated and trained members of the Greater Sudbury Police Service (GSPS) will be able to enter licence plates of interest into the ALPR System, such as stolen vehicles or vehicles associated with missing persons, amber alerts, human and weapons trafficking and organized crime, and vehicles involved in active and ongoing criminal investigations. 

When the licence plate of interest is captured passing through an ALPR system, it will alert the designated members of the police service as to the date, time and location that the vehicle was captured and the direction of travel; it will also provide captured images of the rear of the vehicle.

The ALPR system will automatically purge images of licence plates not designated as a licence plate of interest every seven (7) days.

As the largest municipality in Northern Ontario, Greater Sudbury is viewed as the gateway to the North for organized crime. Having ALPRs monitoring these intelligence-informed locations will assist police to identify suspicious patterns, develop intelligence on the movement of vehicles involved, as well as conduct proactive targeting of offenders. 

ALPRs are valuable investigative tools that will assist GSPS as we coordinate, collaborate with and assist partner law enforcement agencies as many of these crimes are multi-jurisdictional in nature.   

The GSPS conducted a Privacy Impact Assessment prior to activating the ALPR systems.  All licence plates entered into the ALPR system by GSPS personnel will be monitored, and audits will be conducted to ensure that the system is being utilized for a lawful purpose.

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