2008-09-15 18:02:00 - In an amazing development it turns out that, the UK's police forces are planning to record all vehicles via their number plates and trace the journeys that they take. This data will be stored for around five years in for the police to reconstruct driver's movements.

Police to log number plates and journeys for five years



This type of project totally relies on accurate automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) systems which will track the number of a car as it passes, before the next system picks it up, this will continues throughout the ANPR network giving the police access to complete journeys as and when they need

it.

The database will be storing as many as eighteen billion number plates by this time next year; this has been made available because of the amount of CCTV's that have been converted to ANPR cameras.

Simon Bynre, who heads ACPO's ANPR policy said: "Experience has show there are very strong link between illegal use of motor vehicles on the road and other types of serious crime."

Brian MacDowell, spokesperson for the Association of British Drivers said: "Drivers will be staring at their speedometers rather than concentrating on the road ahead. It is even more a case with these cameras because you know you are being clocked at two different points.

"Speed cameras have produced a state of war between drivers and the Government and it will just go on and on.'

In addition to this, average speed cameras are also being rolled out throughout the motorway networks; these will be able to track a car for up to six miles, making the chances of being caught greater.

Source [Telegraph]

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