Police traffic cars and their onboard computers / ANPR
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Hi all,
I just got followed most of the way home by a patrol car and it made me idly curious: do their onboard ANPR computers automatically show information on every car they follow? What information shows up? Do the officers 'think' about every car they follow? Do they give the information a second thought, e.g. they probably would have seen me turn off towards the car's registered address and think 'he's going home from work'?
Totally useless questions I know but ho hum, every day's a school day!
Ta!
I just got followed most of the way home by a patrol car and it made me idly curious: do their onboard ANPR computers automatically show information on every car they follow? What information shows up? Do the officers 'think' about every car they follow? Do they give the information a second thought, e.g. they probably would have seen me turn off towards the car's registered address and think 'he's going home from work'?
Totally useless questions I know but ho hum, every day's a school day!
Ta!
It will flash an alert if something is recorded against that VRM such as no insurance, no tax.
We can also push a button to get instant PNC results of any vehicle the camera has picked up whether it has pinged an alert or not. If the camera hasn't picked up the VRM we can type it in and still PNC the vehicle.
We can also push a button to get instant PNC results of any vehicle the camera has picked up whether it has pinged an alert or not. If the camera hasn't picked up the VRM we can type it in and still PNC the vehicle.
Poshbury said:
One thing to remember if you are being followed by a Police car. It might just coincidentally be going the same way as you are.
Depends, last year my car had ran out of MOT and a police car started following me, so i pulled into a Tesco car park expecting to get blue lighted.I didn't so i started lapping the car park, after lap 3 they obviously got bored and disappeared.
So if you ever get tailed, start lapping a Tesco car park and see if they get bored
Poshbury said:
One thing to remember if you are being followed by a Police car. It might just coincidentally be going the same way as you are.
I know full well it was just a coincidence. I never did believe they were "locked onto me". It just got me curious about how it all works from their POV, that's all .Bristol spark said:
Depends, last year my car had ran out of MOT and a police car started following me, so i pulled into a Tesco car park expecting to get blue lighted.
I didn't so i started lapping the car park, after lap 3 they obviously got bored and disappeared.
So if you ever get tailed, start lapping a Tesco car park and see if they get bored
ANPR doesn't show up MOT.I didn't so i started lapping the car park, after lap 3 they obviously got bored and disappeared.
So if you ever get tailed, start lapping a Tesco car park and see if they get bored
ging84 said:
Unless you, your car or your driving manner makes you stand out as law breaker, still a fair chance they are still turning around for a reason completely unrelated to you.
Nah, I suspect it must have had something to do with a nasty little piece of work that lived at the bottom of the street and they thought that I might have come from there, as they followed me for the better part of six miles before turning off.I've certainly got nothing against the local plod though, not too long before that I had my car jacked up with the back box off and had left it as such overnight as it was getting dark by the time we'd unhooked it. Around 8-ish we had a knock on the door from a passing officer asking if we were aware of the car having been jacked up. I can't say I've had a bad experience of Co. Durham boys and gals in blue yet, they even managed to recover my Dad's stolen Capri many, many years ago before it became trendy to torch/strip stolen motor's.
I was radio operator in an unmarked car. We were following another one but allowed other cars to come between us to allay suspicion.
We stopped at traffic lights and the driver of the car immediately in front of us got out, came back to our car, and said: 'I've already told my brief about you. I'm getting fed up with it all.' Or something like that but with a few forceful adjectives thrown in. I did a PNC check on the car, then via radio to a computer operator. It came back with a marker to report sightings but not to stop.
I phoned the chap who'd put the marker on it, Cally Road RCS, and he was overjoyed, and told us to document the follow we were doing as we were bound to get aggro. He refused to say what the job was about.
I was only on the car for a few days so I don't know if there was any comeback.
We stopped at traffic lights and the driver of the car immediately in front of us got out, came back to our car, and said: 'I've already told my brief about you. I'm getting fed up with it all.' Or something like that but with a few forceful adjectives thrown in. I did a PNC check on the car, then via radio to a computer operator. It came back with a marker to report sightings but not to stop.
I phoned the chap who'd put the marker on it, Cally Road RCS, and he was overjoyed, and told us to document the follow we were doing as we were bound to get aggro. He refused to say what the job was about.
I was only on the car for a few days so I don't know if there was any comeback.
About a month ago about seven pm.Quet road 30mph.
Noticed in my rear view mirror blue flashing lights.Cop car overtook me at speed.me thinking he or she on a emergency call.He moved over into my lane ahead and put his red emergency lights on.
I waited a car length behind him for a talk to me about the situation.I waited five minutes nothing,then a hand outside his side window waving me on.
What was this all about?
Noticed in my rear view mirror blue flashing lights.Cop car overtook me at speed.me thinking he or she on a emergency call.He moved over into my lane ahead and put his red emergency lights on.
I waited a car length behind him for a talk to me about the situation.I waited five minutes nothing,then a hand outside his side window waving me on.
What was this all about?
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