The Canberra Times reports that the city of Canberra is installing new point-to-point speed cameras, which read a car’s license plate to calculate its average speed between two set points. Law enforcement agencies, however, are considering using the speed-detection system to detect stolen cars or unregistered vehicles – and may be even integrating them into a broader surface-to-air surveillance network.

“A specific benefit would derive if the P2P cameras were linked to UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) which could track vehicles of interest,” a senior police officer wrote, according to government documents reported in the Canberra Times.

The Daily Mail reported last year that a similar system is used in some British towns – and that one of these systems helped police make an arrest in February 2010.