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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... [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... [14 Feb 2008]
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... [18 Jan 2006]
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]
Number plate recognition system to tackle MOT-dodgers
News The government will introduce an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system next month to clamp down on unlicensed lorries and buses in an effort to boost road safety. Kevin James, ANPR project... [27 May 2003]
Police seize drugs and stolen goods using licence plate readers
News The automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system, reported on earlier this week by silicon.com, was tested by nine police forces for six months in a trial codenamed Project Laser. Frank Whiteley, chair of the... [29 May 2003]
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]
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... [23 Mar 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... [01 Jul 2005]
DVLA databases only "40 per cent" accurate
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... [03 Nov 2004]
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... [25 Aug 2006]
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... [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)... [18 Jul 2007]
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... [27 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]
