DeterTech AI cameras may have cut trespass at Dingwall

AI system

System: DeterTech AI-powered cameras with audio warnings and live image relay
Model: Not assessed
Release: Not assessed
Application developer: DeterTech
Role: Not assessed
Configuration: Not assessed
Inputs and outputs: Not assessed
Autonomy: Not assessed
Workflow: DeterTech cameras watched a known trespassing route and issued audio warnings. Alerts also reached Network Rail and police. Signage and safety campaigns ran alongside the cameras. [1]
Human oversight: Not assessed
Relation to AI: The release credits the reduction to the cameras together with signage and campaigns. Detection counts, false alarms and responses are not reported. The cameras' AI is described only as detecting route departures.
AI contribution: Not assessed

Outcome identifiers: Not assessed
Benefit: Network Rail reported fewer trespass incidents after installing DeterTech AI cameras at Dingwall, alongside signage and campaigns. It supplied no post-installation count and noted a renewed rise. [1]
Category: Increased Product Safety
Status: Not assessed
Beneficiary groups: Society. Organizations. People.
Beneficiaries: Not assessed
Reach: Not assessed
Distribution and access: Not assessed
Duration: Not assessed
Expected?: Yes
Costs and harms: Not assessed

Studies: Not assessed
Study design: Not assessed
Measurement: Not assessed
Setting and sample: Not assessed
Measures: Not assessed
Comparison: Assumed alternative: trespass recorded at the same crossings before the cameras (June 2025 monitoring)
Results: Assumed comparison. Reference: an average of five trespass incidents a day. Result: incidents have reduced (no figure given).
Additional value from AI: Not assessed
Limitations: Not assessed
Denominators: Not assessed
Materials for replication: Not assessed

Participants: Developer: DeterTech. Operator: Network Rail (Scotland's Railway) with British Transport Police.
Jurisdictions: Benefit: Dingwall, United Kingdom. Developer: United Kingdom. Operator: United Kingdom.
Ownership and control: Not assessed
Dependencies: Not assessed
Cross-border connections: Not assessed
Geopolitical implications: Not assessed

Conditions for replication: Warnings deter rather than being ignored. Police and Network Rail respond to live images. Seasonal and school-holiday increases are monitored.
Replication attempts: 1 follow-up entries. Outcome unresolved: 1.
Later findings: The June 9 release reports that incidents were beginning to rise again as the weather improved. No later measured trespass rate is established by the retained source. [1]
Availability: Not assessed
Institutional decision: Not assessed
Grounds: Not assessed
Action and result: Not assessed
Success criterion: Not assessed

Source numbers: AIBD-0254-source-0001 [1]
Citations: Numbered references below. [1]
Language: Not assessed
Source relationships: Operator [1]
Original evidence: Network Rail’s original release supports the reported decline in trespassing. It links no monitoring data or evaluation and gives no count after installation. [1]
Access and versions: Network Rail’s complete original release is available. It contains no linked evaluation or monitoring dataset. [1]
Supported findings: Not assessed
Evidence links: Not assessed
Evidence strength: Not assessed
Missing evidence: Not assessed

Assessed benefits: Society. Organizations. People.
Depth: Not assessed
Reasons: Society: The release reports a reduction without numbers and notes incidents rising again. Organizations: No quantified operational outcome is documented. People: No individual outcome is documented.
Observed or intended: Not assessed
Rubric: Not assessed
Assessor and date: Not assessed
Alternative assessments: Not assessed
Fill: The deployer's account

Kind: Not assessed
Related entries: Not assessed
Field: Railway safety. Trespass and level-crossing misuse deterrence.
Purpose: The cameras are built to detect people leaving the designated route, warn them and alert Network Rail and police in real time.
Dates: Source published: 9 June 2026. Updated: 24 October 2026. [1]
Stage: Not assessed
Version: SHA-256: e7ea0bbd38e4…

Press release Deployer

Network Rail media centre (9 Jun 2026). AI cameras drive down Dingwall trespass but safety message remains. Scotland's Railway release.

Network Rail’s media release is the deployer’s original account. It includes remarks from Network Rail and British Transport Police, without releasing the underlying monitoring data.