Re: [doc]- Southern meet up?
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Re: [doc]- Southern meet up?



Is it still the case that you can only be fined for having a dodgy
plate? "Oh sorry officer, it got broken today, I'll get a new one made
tomorrow..."

Martin

Mark wrote:

> Hi Claire
>
> The ANPR, Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras have been out for
> quite
> a few years. They are the big blue ones that you see on most major
> roads and
> were introduced for terrorism, to check the whereabouts of known vehicles.
> Now they can check all vehicles that pass. Each vehicle once seen by the
> camera will do a PNC check (Police National Computer) automatically and
> check for valid, MOT, insurance, excise license and any police markers.
>
> Any of the above out of date, will be reported for prosecution. The
> MET did
> a pilot run using these blue street cameras for speed as well a couple of
> months ago. The cameras cant detect speed but it logs a accurate time when
> vehicle passes. If the same vehicle passes another camera, the computer
> knows the exact distance between cameras and  calculate you average speed.
> During a 6 hour test on a Sunday afternoon, they had recorded 45,000
> speeding offences in London alone!!.
>
> For the past 2 years they have been fitted to Police vehicles, and
> they can
> be a pain because you are always stopping vehicles and reporting for
> offences rather than patrolling problem areas.
>
> I 've just received the latest training in using the hand held ANPR
> cameras,
> which can check index numbers & do the PNC check for you in less than few
> seconds. It also has a hard drive memory that holds up to 3 million
> recorded
> checks and has GPRS again it knows exactly date, time and place of every
> vehicle it sees.
>
> So be good
>
> Mark




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