Camera Detected Offence Program

The Camera Detected Offence Program uses the following types of cameras:

• mobile speed cameras
• fixed speed cameras
• red light cameras
• combined red light and speed cameras
• road safety camera trailers
• point-to-point speed camera systems
• mobile phone and seatbelt cameras
• transportable road safety cameras
• speed camera signs pilot in school zones and roadworks.

We partner with the Queensland Police Service and use these types of cameras in Queensland to reduce road trauma. Visit road safety research reports to find out more. 

Some cameras are permanent and operate 24 hours, 7 days a week, with other camera types operated at certain times. Both marked and unmarked vehicles are used—so if you speed, disobey a red light, use your mobile phone while driving or fail to wear a seatbelt correctly, you could be caught anywhere, anytime. 

Camera fines

We use the money collected from camera fines to fund:

• road safety education and awareness
• practices and behaviours that improve road safety
• rehabilitating persons who have been injured in a road crash.

We also fund infrastructure and technologies to improve the safety of state-controlled roads, giving priority to reducing how often road crashes happen and how severe they are. 

How the funds are used is a requirement under the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995. Read more about the Camera Detected Offence Program financial overview in Appendix 4 of the Department of Transport and Main Roads Annual Report 2022-23.