What's the pod on the roof........

[mybrainhurts]

What's the pod on the roof of a South Yorkshire marked Volvo T5 estate?

Parked up with another marked car, plus two others further down the road, facing opposite directions.

The pod is white, mounted on the roof centre line, near the back, with a lens facing backwards.

[timsta]

ANPR?

[cptsideways]

Its ANPR

Automtaic Number Plate Recognition, marvellous system but completely flummoxed by cloned plates of a legal car.

[No Discretion]

ANPR....

The car will have armed gentlemen in it also...

[Don]

No Discretion said:

ANPR.... The car will have armed gentlemen in it also...

Why does this remind me gone-a-k-a-madcop's superb "Careful mate, plod's behind you." story.

That was hilarious...

[Don]

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=10&h=&t=129518


It really is worth reading...

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[mybrainhurts]

Thanks, lads. Thought so.

Does it work on the move?

If so, does it work at night with headlights on?

[2 Smokin Barrels]

mybrainhurts said:

What's the pod on the roof of a South Yorkshire marked Volvo T5 estate? .

If you wait til the spring you can see it sprout.

[mybrainhurts]

Into what.....?

[2 Smokin Barrels]

mybrainhurts said:

Into what.....?

A T5 tree of course.

[2 Smokin Barrels]

I was going to do this:

mybrainhurts said:

Who's pooed on the roof of a South Yorkshire marked Volvo T5 estate?

...but I thought it was a bit disrespectful

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mybrainhurts said:

Thanks, lads. Thought so. Does it work on the move? If so, does it work at night with headlights on?

Yep..works on the move and at night.....

The cars are often used on motorways...when the BiB are in lane one..and every car passing by is run through the ANPR checks...

[cortinaman]

everytime i see a cop car on the motorway,im usually the only bugger passing it as the rest of the numpties sit behind him.

[mybrainhurts]

2 Smokin Barrels said:

mybrainhurts said: Into what.....? A T5 tree of course.

Ouch..........ouchouch.............

[mybrainhurts]

2 Smokin Barrels said:

I was going to do this: mybrainhurts said: Who's pooed on the roof of a South Yorkshire marked Volvo T5 estate? ...but I thought it was a bit disrespectful

Oi......

What you really mean is you kept missing......

Crap shot.......eh?

[Alice Cupra]

I spotted a traffic car a while back with said pod on the roof.

Thought it was an outside-mounted speed camera....

Do trafpols have speed cameras mounted outside, or is it just ANPRs??

[Tafia]

mybrainhurts said:

Thanks, lads. Thought so. Does it work on the move? If so, does it work at night with headlights on?

BiB's in London said on TV that their car-mounted ANPR beeps so often that they don't have time to chase them all.....

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Alice Cupra said:

I spotted a traffic car a while back with said pod on the roof. Thought it was an outside-mounted speed camera.... Do trafpols have speed cameras mounted outside, or is it just ANPRs??

Just ANPR...

Any vehicle used speed cameras in patrol cars..will be hand held laser guns...

[g_attrill]

The pod on the roof is unlikely to be a camera, it is probably a large infra-red lamp for the camera, which is usually in the back window. The lamp and camera is usually mounted so that it illuminates cars passing on the right.

Because it's illuminating a reflective surface it probably works even better at night.

Until recently there were NO guidelines for dealing with cloned vehicles. Apparently a vehicle record can now be flagged as cloned and picked up by ANPR vans. Frankly if my vehicle was cloned I would pay for a new registration to be issued, no point reporting it as cloned and then getting stopped all the time and having to prove you are the clonee and not the cloner.

Gareth