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The 2025–26 state budget will provide the NSW Police Force with “the best and latest cyber capabilities”.
The NSW Police Force will receive a significant funding and technology boost under the state’s next budget, with the Minns government allocating $125.8 million toward specialist equipment and “critical cyber upgrades”.
“We are making sure the NSW Police Force has the best and latest cyber capabilities to keep our communities safe – and that’s exactly what this investment does,” Yasmin Catley, Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism, said in an 18 July statement.
“With the number of cyber attacks only growing, we must ensure police can respond at any time of the day and keep people’s information protected.
“This builds on our record investment to rebuild the NSW Police Force by giving officers the capability and technology to continue their ever-important work of keeping the community safe.”
$24.6 million will go towards the Cyber Security Enhancement Program, providing enhanced, real-time protection, preventing and identifying cyber incidents, and establishing NSWPF as a “modern law enforcement agency”.
$50 million will be invested in the Critical Network Program, boosting contact centres, refreshing end-of-life hardware at police stations, and modernising networks, while $6 million will go towards specialist equipment.
Finally, $42.5 million will be spent on enhancing and modernising a secure payroll platform.
“The investment in the Cyber Security Enhancement Program ensures that police infrastructure and critical information is safe from malicious cyber attacks,” NSW Police Force Deputy Commissioner Dean Smith said.
“The threat of cyber attack is ever-evolving, and we need to be ahead of threat actors, internationally and locally, when it comes to our prevention, detection and response capability. This is critical to the work we do.
“We know that the threat of cyber attack is real, and like other organisations, we receive threats every day.
“Equally significant is the investment into our Critical Network Program. This includes investment into our audio visual link technology to work efficiently with the courts and corrective services.”
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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