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November 17, 2006

ALPR in Canada

From United Press International:
Canadian police have began testing and using ALPR (also known as ANPR). They also provide some results:

Solicitor General John Les said, "We are taking back B.C. roads with this phenomenal technology," labeling the ALPR system "the future of policing in B.C. It will look for anybody who shouldn't be on the road. People who don't have driver's licenses; people who don't have their car registered; people who don't have insurance."

In initial tests over the last several months the ALPR system allowed a single police car to scan 600 license plates per hour; the tests revealed that an average of 10 plates an hour were flagged by the in-car computer system as an alert.

Of the alerts, stolen vehicles accounted for 9 percent, 7 per cent were banned drivers, 25 per cent were unlicensed or uninsured vehicles and 59 per cent were associated with unlicensed drivers.

Posted by rshah at November 17, 2006 12:30 PM

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