Another success for ANPR - not

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Wed 16 Sep 2009 17:04
Another success for ANPR - not - Optimist
If ANPR can't pick this one up

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8259...m

what use is it?

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Wed 16 Sep 2009 17:15
Another success for ANPR - not - jbif
If ANPR can't pick this one up ... what use is it? >>


Eh? Why do you say it failed? Do you know whether the vehicle involved was registered in the name the driver in question?

( I ask because AFAIK, ANPR checks the vehicle, not the driver! I could "borrow" your insured/taxed car and yet not have a driving licence nor insurance. )

Edited by jbif on 16/09/2009 at 17:15

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Wed 16 Sep 2009 17:15
Another success for ANPR - not - Lygonos
Weakest.
Sentence.
Ever.
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Wed 16 Sep 2009 17:24
Another success for ANPR - not - BobbyG
Absolutely nothing to do with ANPR.
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Wed 16 Sep 2009 18:40
Another success for ANPR - not - Optimist
M'learned friend, jbif, said >> Eh? Why do you say it failed? Do you know whether the vehicle involved was registered in the name the driver in question?>>

I don't see anything in the article to suggest she had stolen the car and I don't see anything to suggest anyone was done for aiding and abetting her by letting her use theirs, so I made a bit of a leap and assumed the car was hers.

If I'm wrong then the poster above is right.




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Wed 16 Sep 2009 19:36
Another success for ANPR - not - martint123
What flashed across my mind was she got 7 months for killing a motorcyclist, but some months ago a motorcyclist got 12 months for speeding and not hurting a soul (although silly speeds and done for dangerous driving).
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Wed 16 Sep 2009 20:04
Another success for ANPR - not - boxsterboy
She must be really really worried that she can't have a licence for 2 years, seeing as she has previous form for driving with no licence, insurance, etc.!
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Wed 16 Sep 2009 21:13
Another success for ANPR - not - Westpig
ANPR will have picked her car up if it was shown as no insurance, possibly on many occasions, but if there is no one available to act on it (for the fixed cameras) or a traffic car was busy going to something more important...then it wouldn't get dealt with.

ANPR is only of use if there are humans available to back it up. Quite a lot of the time, there aren't.

I'm aware of one police control room that had it installed direct from a fixed camera, it kept going off so much and there was never any spare staff to deal, so it was turned off.

So don't blame the ANPR. If anything blame the lack of resources for traffic type policing... and i've never been employed in that role, so have no personal axe to grind.
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Wed 16 Sep 2009 21:22
Another success for ANPR - not - maz64
How likely are you to go through an ANPR camera anyway? Are they all over the place, or only in police vehicles, or what? I'm not aware of any around Reading, although I haven't been looking out for them.
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Wed 16 Sep 2009 21:25
Another success for ANPR - not - Westpig
they are sprouting up a lot as fixed ones...and many traffic cars have them..don't know the specifics...i do know there are very few traffic cops nowadays and general cops do not have the spare capacity to concentrate on ANPR bleeps...certainly not in the smoke anyway
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