Flock cameras in Canada: check ALPR records and the vendor

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To check cameras in Canada, search both Flock Safety and ALPR or automated licence plate recognition, inspect the recorded vendor, and compare mapped fixed locations with local police information about mobile readers.

A Canadian ALPR is not necessarily a Flock camera

ALPR describes a type of technology; Flock Safety names a vendor. Other suppliers also make plate readers. A search for 'Flock cameras in Toronto' should therefore lead you to camera records and vendor details, rather than a claim that every reader is a Flock device.

Toronto Police Service identifies Axon as the supplier of its ALPR system and says the technology is installed on more than 560 patrol vehicles. Those moving readers are different from the fixed locations on a public camera map.

Toronto Police Service: ALPR technology

Start with documented local records

FlockDetour has published fixed-radius snapshots for Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver. Each gives its reference center, retrieval date, ALPR count and the subset explicitly attributed to Flock Safety. Select a record to inspect its current map details.

Coverage is uneven. The October 3, 2026 snapshots for Toronto and Vancouver have no Flock-attributed records, while Montréal has some records with that attribution. These are source labels, not an independently verified inventory. Missing vendor labels and errors can change the result.

Toronto ALPR camera snapshot · Montréal Flock and ALPR snapshot · Vancouver ALPR camera snapshot

Fixed-camera maps cannot locate every mobile reader

A mapped point is useful for a documented fixed installation. It cannot tell you where a patrol vehicle with an ALPR is now, nor establish the full network used by a police service. Toronto's description of its patrol-vehicle system is one reason to keep those categories separate.

The RCMP also describes an ALPR program in British Columbia involving provincial and police partners. Its program page is a useful official starting point for researching police use, but it is not a live public camera-location feed.

BC RCMP: ALPR program

How to check a Canadian city

Search the map for your city, open the camera details and inspect the source and vendor. Then search your municipality or police service's website for 'automated licence plate recognition', 'automatic licence plate recognition' and 'ALPR'. Look for procurement records, technology pages and published policies that describe the actual system.

For places with sparse records, including Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa in our current snapshot review, use the interactive map and contribute well-supported corrections. Do not interpret a missing city page or a blank map as proof that surveillance is absent. No fixed-camera map can guarantee a camera-free route.

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Questions people ask

Are all licence plate readers in Canada made by Flock Safety?
No. ALPR systems come from multiple vendors. Toronto Police Service identifies Axon as the supplier of its system. Inspect the source and vendor field for a specific record rather than using Flock as a synonym for every plate reader.
Does a Canadian camera map include mobile police readers?
A fixed-location map does not show the current location of patrol vehicles. Read local police technology information alongside mapped fixed sites to understand the limits of coverage.

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