Saudi Public Security puts Sawaher, Maydan and its drones on the LEAP floor

Saudi Public Security is showing a named set of operational systems inside the Interior Ministry's pavilion at LEAP 2026, under the banner "technical solutions for a secure nation", running the full four days of the show at the Riyadh Exhibition and Conference Center in Malham. The list published in Arabic is unusually specific for this kind of participation. It includes Maydan; a mobile smart security control centre; smart drones; a platform called Amn; a data warehouse of incidents and violations; Sawaher, described as a comprehensive perception platform for operations management and visual control; a robot for weapons disposal and explosive ordnance removal; body-worn cameras; and mobile policing units and electric scooters. Taken together the list describes a force building around a control room rather than around individual devices. The mobile control centre, the drones and the body cameras are all sensors and endpoints; Sawaher and the incident data warehouse are the layers that make sense of what they produce. That ordering is the significant part. Police forces everywhere have accumulated cameras and drones faster than they have built the systems to use what those devices record, and the result is usually archives nobody watches. A named platform for visual control and operations management, sitting alongside a warehouse of incident and violation data, suggests the integration work is being treated as its own programme. None of these are new procurements announced at the show. This is a display of systems in service, and the specifics of each — how much of the country Sawaher covers, what the drones are used for, what analysis runs over the incident warehouse — have not been published. The exhibition list names them; it does not explain them. The bomb disposal robot and the electric scooters sit at opposite ends of the same estate, and both are conventional in modern policing. So are body cameras, which have become standard equipment in most large forces over the past decade, though the policy attached to them — when they record, who can review the footage, how long it is retained — usually matters more than the hardware. No policy detail has been published here. Public Security's participation sits inside the Interior Ministry's fifth appearance at the show. The ministry is a strategic sponsor and has built a pavilion covering security and field safety, traffic safety, security cameras, digital services and institutional systems , with its component bodies showing their own work: the Civil Defense brought a connected helmet and the passports directorate demonstrated a palm-scan contactless e-gate . The ministry has also been signing this week. Its Special Forces for Security and Protection took a memorandum with a Saudi software company covering artificial intelligence and research, which is the other half of the same story: the systems on the stand are what exists, and the memoranda are what the forces would like to exist next. What would be worth knowing, and is not on the stand, is how these systems perform against the measures a police force is judged by — response times, case outcomes, and how often an automated flag turns out to be right. TechScoop is reporting from LEAP 2026 in Riyadh.