Queensland Police now have uninterrupted access to the 7000 cameras at train stations to help manage big crowds – as expected at this month's Riverfire – and to fight crime on trains and stations.
Police started getting access to Queensland Rail's train station cameras in May and testing of the system is complete.
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Police watching the rail network
Queensland police now have access to thousands of cameras monitoring the state's rail network to track offenders. 7 News Queensland
Before this, police relied on advice from Queensland Rail's security staff.
Eight police have been added to the 78-person police railway squad.
Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe and Police Minister Bill Byrne announced the improved access to Queensland Rail's camera network on Friday.
Police can watch the feeds from the 7000 cameras at the Police Communications Centre in Roma Street and at Queensland Rail's new management centre in Bowen Hills.
"Police will now be able to log into station-based cameras monitoring an incident on the rail network and co-ordinate their response appropriately," Mr Byrne said.
"This will improve the current process of Queensland Rail security monitoring officers providing information verbally," he said.
"It makes sense for police to have instant access to the eyes and ears provided by Queensland Rail's cameras and will ensure they are able to better respond to incidents."
Queensland Rail opened its Rail Management Centre at Bowen Hills in February and the vision from the cameras is now fed to a wall of screens at the centre.
"Police access to the real-time CCTV will complement the new media wall located at the Queensland Rail Management Centre, which is more than triple the size of the previous one," Mr Hinchliffe said.
Queensland Rail's security staff can enhance the imagery at the Rail Management Centre to help police, he said.
He said the number of serious weapons-based offences on south-east Queensland's rail network had dropped by half over the past two years.
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