What is a police ANPR Interceptor?

What is a police ANPR Interceptor?

ANPR devices work by scanning vehicle registrations and checking them against information stored in databases, including the Police National Computer to identify vehicles of interest to the police, such as stolen cars, those involved in crimes or vulnerable missing persons.

What does a police ANPR show?

ANPR cameras read the number plate of passing vehicles and check them in a database of vehicles of interest to DVSA , eg goods vehicles, buses and coaches. DVSA uses ANPR to help target which vehicles to stop and check. This helps to detect offences including: untested vehicles.

Is ANPR legal?

As with all methods of enforcement of unregulated private land, charges enforced by ANPR are subject to the law of Contract. They are also self regulated through the BPA Code of Practice for Parking on Private Land, and voluntary membership to the BPA’s Approved Operator Scheme.

Does ANPR check every car?

Do all police cars have ANPR? Not every police vehicle is mounted with an ANPR camera. Exact figures of how many police vehicles have ANPR systems installed is not readily available for all regions. That said, some police forces do disclose this information on their websites.

Are all police cars fitted with ANPR?

How many ANPR-equipped vehicles do police forces run? Not all police vehicles will be equipped with these cameras and exact figures are hard to come by. A large force such as the Metropolitan Police will have a many camera-equipped cars, while a smaller force such as Dorset has just 18.

What happens if you get caught by an ANPR camera?

Despite ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) cameras in some police force areas identifying over 4,000 uninsured vehicles every day, very few drivers receive a penalty or are sent for prosecution. The fixed penalty for driving without insurance is £300 and 6 penalty points.

What do police see when they run your plates UK?

A network of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) and cameras mounted in police vehicles captures images of number plates and use optical character recognition (OCR) to determine the registration of cars using UK roads. A series of algorithms is used by the technology to help number plate identification.

Is ANPR a surveillance?

ANPR technology must take into account plate variations from place to place. Privacy issues have caused concerns about ANPR, such as government tracking citizens’ movements, misidentification, high error rates, and increased government spending. Critics have described it as a form of mass surveillance.

Can police seize your car for no tax?

An untaxed car could be impounded by the police – leading to an expensive and inconvenient procedure to release your vehicle. If this happens to you, you’ll also need impounded car insurance to help regain access to your car.