ALPR cameras in Ontario

1046 licence plate readers and related surveillance cameras are mapped in Ontario, 382 of them classified as police ALPR. Every location links back to the OpenStreetMap node it came from.

What is mapped in Ontario

496 Toll gantry

382 Police ALPR

166 Border control

2 Private / institutional

Toll gantries and border crossings are counted separately on purpose. They read plates too, but they are a different kind of system with a different legal basis — folding them into a "surveillance cameras" total is how a map ends up overstating policing. See the categories on the map →

Who operates them

Operator	Cameras	Detail
Ministry of Transportation of Ontario	285	Locations and policy →
City of Brampton	105	Locations and policy →
York Regional Police	77	Locations and policy →
Chatham-Kent Police	41	Locations and policy →
Greater Sudbury Police Service	21	Locations and policy →
Waterloo Regional Police Service	15	Locations and policy →
City of Kingston	7	Locations and policy →
407 ETR	6	Locations and policy →
Chatham-Kent Police Service	5	Locations and policy →
Sault Ste. Marie Police Service	3	Locations and policy →
Toronto Police Service	2	Locations and policy →
United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin Anishnaabe Police Service	1	Locations and policy →
Ontario Provincial Police	1	Locations and policy →
Upper Canada Mall	1	Locations and policy →
The Home Depot	1	Locations and policy →
Township of Puslinch	1	Locations and policy →

A further 474 mapped cameras carry no operator tag, so we cannot say who runs them. That is the single biggest gap in crowdsourced ALPR data, and it is why we file records requests instead of guessing. The paper trail →

Retention rules that apply here

We have not published a province-wide retention figure for Ontario. Retention in Canada is generally set force by force rather than by statute, which is the finding itself.

How the rules compare across Canada, the US and the UK →

Read this as a floor, not a total. These are cameras somebody has mapped in OpenStreetMap, not an official inventory. Newly mapped is not newly installed, and none of this captures vehicle-mounted ALPR — the fleet scanners that do most of the plate reading in Canada and appear on no dot map anywhere. The fleet layer explains the gap → Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), generated 2026-10-19.