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Comment London calls time on gas-guzzling vehicles with ANPR Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Scary figures Government admits to 200 more laptop thefts
[21 Feb 2008]
News London's Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) is using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to limit the number of high emissions vehicles entering the city. The zone is designed to reduce the level of harmful diesel emissions produced by...
[14 Feb 2008]
News Record numbers of uninsured vehicles are being seized and crushed thanks to automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology, research reveals. The use of ANPR has led to more than 100,000 uninsured vehicles in the UK being seized this year by...
[14 Nov 2007]
Comment Yet recent reports saw Home Secretary Jacqui Smith flouting Data Protection (1998) laws by letting the Metropolitan Police use automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) data for crime-fighting purposes.
[13 Sep 2007]
News Yesterday the government revealed that Transport for London and the Metropolitan Police have been excepted from parts of the Data Protection Act to allow the "bulk transfer" of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) data in realtime from...
[18 Jul 2007]
News The PNC was established in 1974 and supports the Phoenix national criminal record database, along with other services such as crime pattern analysis and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). This excludes more than three million ANPR...
[03 Apr 2007]
News The system combines Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and Weigh-In Motion System (Wims) technologies - electronic strips set into the road surface. If the lorry is carrying more weight than it should an alert is sent to the Vosa control...
[25 Aug 2006]
News The vans will be equipped with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras that will scan car number plates and check them against the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) database of untaxed vehicles.
[20 Jun 2006]
Photo Police can use the system to check MOT certificates, and the system will link in with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) databases which can check against a list of vehicles without MOT certificates in future.
[07 Apr 2006]
whitepaper More and more police forces and government agencies and departments are turning to Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology to help reduce serious and volume crime. With various government objectives to reduce crime, Project Laser was...
[16 Feb 2006]
News The increase in transactions is partly down to the PNC being linked into more systems such as the automatic number plate recognition system (ANPR) and the Airwave secure radio system, said PNC customer support manager Danny McGannan.
[09 Feb 2006]
News Police will be able to store and search data captured by the proposed national automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera network for at least two years, the government has revealed. In exceptional circumstances there may be operational...
[18 Jan 2006]
News He also warns that the ID card data trail could easily be linked with other initiatives such as CCTV surveillance using automatic facial recognition, the use of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) recording vehicle movements for law...
[28 Oct 2005]
News Derbyshire Constabulary has used mobile automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology on its traffic police vehicles since 1999 and is the lead authority on the five-year framework deal that could be extended to other east Midlands police...
[27 Oct 2005]
News Siemens has won a £60m contract to provide the digital camera and automatic number plate reading (ANPR) technology for enforcing London's Congestion Charge in the controversial new western extension zone.
[13 Oct 2005]
News As part of the extension, Easynet has won a £9m contract to provide a secure data network for transmitting digital images captured by the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras to a central enforcement facility.
[11 Oct 2005]
News Northamptonshire Police are using the mobile fingerprint readers to help identify drivers pulled over during automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) checks. ANPR captures passing vehicles' number plates and checks them against the Police National...
[01 Jul 2005]
News The cameras use automatic number plate recognition technology (ANPR) to check a vehicle’s identity against the Police National Computer, records at the DVLA and local intelligence systems. The updated ANPR strategy calls for the development of a...
[23 Mar 2005]
News This capability will be increased when SID is linked to the national violent and sex offender register (Visor) and the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) database in the summer. English and Welsh police forces are in discussions with...
[08 Mar 2005]
News The weaknesses in the accuracy of data in the DVLA's databases were flagged up in a report into a year-long trial by 23 police forces using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to check vehicles against various intelligence databases.
[03 Nov 2004]
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