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ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester
News The network of 15 automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras cover main approaches to the metropolitan area. Mobile ANPR cameras used in Manchester over the past two years have already resulted in police seizing more than 30,000 cars flagged... [05 Jun 2008]
London calls time on gas-guzzling vehicles with ANPR
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]
Tech leads to crunch time for uninsured drivers
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]
Police tap road cameras for crime-fighting info
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]
Police National Computer gets a facelift
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]
Overweight truckers stopped by tech checks
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]
Number plate scanning vans in car tax crackdown
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]
Crime fighting computer celebrates record traffic
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]
Police to store number plate camera data for two years
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]
Data protection watchdog blasts ID card database
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]
Police forces team up for number plate scanning
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]
Siemens wins £60m C-Charge enforcement contract
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]
TfL spends £9m on Congestion Charge tech
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]
Police patrol cars get mobile fingerprint readers
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]
Police road camera network targets criminals
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]
