just watched that programme that was on the other night about the ANPR checkpoints that were set up around the country and they dragged a load of ‘hits’ in to a bay for a thorough check.
i have a few small questions about ANPR…
do they also check wagons?
can they tell if they have O Licences?
can they tell if they have had prohibition notices from vosa on them?
i have no intention of breaking the law but was wondering if they could as this would make it a bit easier to track foreigners that have been parked up and also people that are blatantly breaking the law.
Giblsa:
just watched that programme that was on the other night about the ANPR checkpoints that were set up around the country and they dragged a load of ‘hits’ in to a bay for a thorough check.
i have a few small questions about ANPR…
do they also check wagons?
can they tell if they have O Licences?
can they tell if they have had prohibition notices from vosa on them?
i have no intention of breaking the law but was wondering if they could as this would make it a bit easier to track foreigners that have been parked up and also people that are blatantly breaking the law.
That would mean joined up thinking. I dont think DVLA is linked to VOSA or if the ANPR can read foreign plates automatically
ANPR technology — the next steps
VOSA’s ANPR pilot in 2003/04 enabled significant
improvements in targeting effectiveness and
intelligence gathering. We are extending the
deployment of equipment and coordinating our
activity with other agencies to make best use of
the camera network on British roads. One of our
first priorities for this year is to assess and
evaluate the use of ANPR cameras to enforce
the ‘O’-licence regime.
Our project plans are in line with the emerging DVO
Camera Strategy and VOSA is playing a full part in
developing that broader approach. Over the next
two years we will establish whether to install further
sets of ANPR equipment to assist in our targeted
enforcement work.
I also saw that programme and yes it would also check trucks, including the one’s that had a name plate in the screen.
Operator’s Licence? I would doubt it. There are so many reasons that a vehicle would not need to have one, Private Use, hired vehicle, training vehicle, etc, which would lead to many ‘false’ hits. Even if they did, then it is something that can be followed up later.
G.V.9’s. Almost certainly not for a delayed prohibition, but if it was one issued by the Police, or if one had moved off contravening an order, then most likely it would have been put on PNC.
Watching it work, and the speed at which it worked, I would assume that the equipment is checking against a downloaded portion of the DVLA records that either have PNC entries or DVLA ‘markers’. From the speed at which it was operating, there is no way that it could have been ‘handshaking’ with Swansea for every single ‘read’. Not unless they had a bloody long fibre optic.
Foreign plates? Probably a bit hit and miss as to whether it could read it accurately.
Interestingly, what the programme didn’t expound upon was the number of ‘mis-reads’ or ‘no data’, therefore I’m assuming that these fail to trigger an ‘alert’, or perhaps we were just not shown that.