When on holiday in the Dordogne two weeks ago (feels like two months now!), I picked up a Sunday Times newspaper which stated that the government was reducing grant-funding for speed cameras. This was given the thumbs-up by the paper which reported that many motorists see such cameras as a tax first and a life-saver [...]
UK police forces may soon face tough restrictions over the use of the network of Automatic Number Place Recognition Cameras (ANPR) which can trace up to 14 million motorists on the roads.
The network of 4,000 cameras can take photographs of car number plates, which allow police officers to follow vehicles, log and record their details.
Critics [...]
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Avon and Somerset Police have launched a campaign to target drivers that flout road traffic laws today (Monday July 19).
Operation Vortex is part of a regional operation to reduce the number of casualties on roads across the whole of the South West.
The two-week operation will see road policing officers carry out targeted patrols on roads [...]
An independent review is to be held after 218 cameras, paid for out of a counter-terrorism fund, were put up in east Birmingham.
Complaints were made after the cameras were installed in the Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook districts, areas with a large Muslim population.
The Safer Birmingham Project (SBP), made up of the city council, police and [...]
Manchester Airport is installing spy cameras in its car parks after a surge in drivers dodging parking fees.
The cameras, which check number plates, are being brought in after a surge in people cheating the system.
A spot check spotted 27 drivers in just one hour ‘tailgating’ behind other vehicles to get under the barrier.
Some passengers are [...]
Cameras which can automatically record the faces of drivers – and the numberplates of their cars, may be deployed at St Helier Harbour.
It’s one of a number of measures aimed at bringing a halt to speeding on the Albert Quay.
Residents there are complaining about anti-social behaviour by some car drivers and the noise they cause [...]
Cash to pay for a system of cameras that can keep tabs on terrorists and smugglers as they drive across Northern Ireland has been approved.
The PSNI has been given nearly £13m to pay for an Automatic Number Plate Reader (ANPR) system to be rolled out across the province that will allow officers to track suspects [...]
SERGEANT Matt Rees says it is “the best bit of kit … since radar”. But privacy advocates warn it poses great risks.
The technology – automatic number plate recognition – has been around for about five years.
But now the state government will buy 100 mobile units for the 400 highway patrol vehicles – a move which, [...]
Police cameras that record motorists’ movements must be more tightly regulated, Home Secretary Theresa May has ordered.
The 4,000-strong automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) network logs more than 10 million vehicles every day.
The government is to look at limiting access to the database of 7.6 billion images, details of number plates and the date, time and [...]
