Fight against serious crime continues!

[number 46]

Good to see my hard earned taxes being used to fight against serious crime this morning. i.e. two police cars, four policemen, one camera on tripod at the bottom of constitution hill outside brenda's house. The crime you ask ?? speeding of course!!! public enemy number one!!! All this effort to stop one empty cab on an empty road on a sunday morning at 0750 am.

[gemini]

you were stopped?

did you receive a FPN?

[angusfaldo]

On balance, it probably was a dozy place to speed...

[number 46]

No neither,I've seen them there many times before so kept my speed down.

[gemini]

ah good

The point in then make is that it may well have been ANPR - checking cars for markers

In which case probably a good crime fighting way of spending your CT!

[number 46]

Maybe I wasn't clear. I did not get stopped. My point is, is this an useful/cost effective use of police time and energy, should we being focusing so much on speeding motorists?

[number 46]

An ANPR?? how does one know which it is?

[number 46]

I take you point gemini re the ANPR, I think thats unlikely though, there is very little traffic there on a Sunday morning. The location of the camera at the bottom of a wide, straight, long road with the camera/policemen partially hidden by trees seems to be a good place to catch speeders easily.

[gemini]

hope not and hope anpr (but u do sound correct!)

my mates just emailed me re two ANPR stops this week

He chased and had crash (unfortunate) a stolen car (keys from burg) and a disq driver

The types of things we want th BoB to be doing with cameras?

[number 46]

Gemini, perhaps this was an ANPR then, could well explain the two policecars and number of policemen. I'm all for finding uninsured drivers/stolen cars etc. having been knocked of my bike by an uninsured black cab driver who then left the scene !! unfortunately for him my wife was following in the car behind and got his number!!why do they need the camera though?? Maybe they were trying to catch Prince Harry driving one of his dads cars past his mums house !!!!! Infact I think more resources should be directed away from speeding and towards no insurance, no MOT, nicked cars etc.

[alans]

number 46 said:

Gemini, Maybe they were trying to catch Prince Harry driving one of his dads cars past his mums house !!!!!

If I was him, I would take the one with no number plates

[tonyrec]

I believe that its High profile Policing, after all, theres lots going on in the Capital.

[gemini]

number 46 said:

Gemini, perhaps this was an ANPR. Why do they need the camera though??

The camera reads the number plate and then passes the reg thorugh a multitude of databases - if it get a "hit" then they come after you
registration, intelligence, PNC, insurance, tax, immmigaration etc

great tool for crime busting