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May 05, 2005

Riding Along with ANPR

From Welwyn & Hatfield Times Link:

A story following how ANPR technology is used:

A Hertfordshire police road intercept team was using an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera to stop law-breaking motorists on the A1000 by Hatfield House. And as the WHT chatted to sergeant Greg O'Toole in his team's prototype ANPR vehicle, the state-of-the-art equipment suddenly alerted us to a motorist who was driving while disqualified. The incident illustrated perfectly the advantages of using the revolutionary cameras, according to Sgt O'Toole."We would never normally have stopped that vehicle," he said. "We get 20 to 30 incidents like that a day and around 100 a day in total." Some of the information is low level but some is of great interest. We had a couple of chases last week."

As the WHT reported on April 6 the innovative equipment works by checking the number plates of passing vehicles against police and DVLA databases and could soon be used on all police cars.The cross-checks also allow the team to see if there is a crime associated with a vehicle, according to Sgt O'Toole. "Fifty per cent of all arrests are for a priority crime offence like burglary, theft, robbery and drug offences." In just three hours on the A1000 Sgt O'Toole's team stopped 50 cars and four were towed away.

Posted by rshah at May 5, 2005 09:05 PM

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