The two most recent additions are new generation Mobile Data Terminals (MDTs) and radar detector detectors.

The aim of the MDTs is to allow police to spend more time in the community, and less time in the office fulfilling administrative requirements.

Highway patrol officers are now able to perform their own registration, license, and record checks while on the road where previously requests for the information had to be radioed back to the station.

The MDTs free up valuable airtime on police radio, allowing it to be used for more urgent tasks.

The technology is wireless data equipped, and gives officers access to Police Information Systems from anywhere in NSW at any time.

Prior to this new technology being rolled out, about 140,000 registration checks were able to be conducted each month by officers in NSW, however in January 2008 that number had risen to 433,000 which is a 209 per cent increase.

Motorists who use a radar detector to avoid being caught speeding are now the target of Nowra’s highway patrol officers.

Highway patrol cars across the state have been issued with radar detector detectors.

Radar detectors have been banned in NSW since 1987 and it is illegal to sell or offer for sale a prohibited speed measuring evasion article.

Motorists can be fined more than $1000 and lose nine demerit points if they are found to have one of these illegal devices in their vehicles.