This comes from something called the eGov Monitor...
"ANPR was introduced to tackle vehicle theft and to cut the number of vehicles on the road without proper insurance
According to figures last September, ANPR logged around 32 million "reads", or records, in the 18 months covered by Laser One and Two, the two pilots of the new system.
However, there are concerns over inaccuracies when the data is linked to DVLA records.
According to police figures quoted in parliament last July, ANPR data held by the DVLA has only a 40 per cent accuracy rate."
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The parliamentary question referred to was asked in 2005.
I realise you have had a lot of uncooperative hassle from various people including the DVLA but if you are going to criticise them at least find some up to date information.
As far as I know ANPR looks for MOT TAX and Insurance details, only the TAX details are held by the DVLA even now.
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Baz,
I understand where you're coming from on this and entirely sympathise with your plight over the cloned vehicle. To my mind the issue here is that stolen or forged V5 documents are present in (relatively) significant numbers. It's not clear that DVLA have taken this on board and put procedures in place to deal with it. If there is any maladminstration it lies in the area of new problems and failure to react ot them.
You will not succeed if you try and pursue your potentialy legitimate claim by a campaign to discredit the whole organisation and if you portray it as a "conspiracy" you will get nowhere either. A conspiracy requires too many people "in the know". Our public service may in parts be inefficient or incompetent or both but it is overwhelmingly honest. Organising a conspiracy in that environment like sorting is a pink fluffy dice in a silent convent rather than a brewery!!
Edited by Webmaster on 03/02/2010 at 00:49
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In my experience, the DVLA is the most efficient, speedy, and up to date public service we have.
Most services are availlable on line, they turn around items (licences, tax disk, V5's) pretty fast.
Ok sure they seem to have handled the stolen V5s badly and this case in particular, but they are not responsible for the theft, nor the savy workings of the thiefs.
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In my defence...
a) The data came from a link to the current issue (January 2010) on agency governance. I was not aware it was so dated; and
b) I am not a conspiracy theorist. I was simply doing some light digging to see if there has been any pattern of service failure at the DVLA in recent times.
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According to police figures quoted in parliament last July ANPR data held by the DVLA has only a 40 per cent accuracy rate."
As long as I'm not wrongly accused, I don't care.
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Baz i really simpothise with ya. Forgive spelling .
However what i can't get my head round and still can't. The DVLA issue individuals details out (home address owner of vehicle etc) to anyone who asks like confetti. How do they get away with this without been in breach of the data protection act.
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Brentus,
There are eight data protection principles tinyurl.com/yad5tfl . The supply of owner data to those wih a legitimate need to know does not obviously breach any of them.
There are clearly some concerns about for example private parking enforcement companies, and I think the Information Commissioner has investigated some of these. It's not soemthing that lends itself to black/white interpretation and rules to restrict access are likely to create hard cases both ways.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 04/02/2010 at 21:23
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Bromptonaut link dead {now fixed}
i also think you need to realise that we now live in a society where only money talks
ive been asked for £3000 from a solicitor today for a straight forward task that i could do but not allowed
the more i see the more i realise this country is becoming 2 tiered and not for the better
soon the poor will be cap duffing again
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 04/02/2010 at 21:23
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Thanks for that Brompton.
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