ANPR cameras- are they everywhere and logging everyone?

tamiami

Whenever the police are investigating a crime or murder they always seem to come up with video of the persons last movements or show the unusual movements of a car in residential streets. Becky Watts murder for example, lots of cctv of the car in a residential street.

ThumbRemote

textbook wrote: »

Does ANPR mean filming a car reg and then having the technology to read that number and send it to a computer to be identified? And do they do this with every car (the crime ANPR ones)?

If any car passed one (there would certainly be one in a town centre, wouldn't there?) Would that information definitely be retrievable from days before?

ANPR is much less common that you'd think. All it does is convert the number plate off an image to text. Its main use is for the police to send to a database automatically, eg to do a real time check if the car is taxed or insured.

Lots of garages use ANPR as well, but it's more of a gimmick than of any use. After all, they could just store the normal footage, they don't really do anything clever with the registration number in text formal.

There is no guarantee a car will have been caught on any CCTV camera.
The quality of cameras is highly variable. Many cover a wide area, so won't have enough detail to actually make out a registration plate (no, you can't 'zoom in and enhance the image' like they do in films)
Even if it has been caught on CCTV, every CCTV scheme will be run by a different person/company/organisation and there is no central database of them.
The only way you can get the information you want is by contacting some CCTV operators and asking to look at the footage.
They won't let you look at it - it will take hours to allow you to go through it looking for a specific car, and there are data protection implications too.

You've got almost no chance of finding what you seem to want. If the police are investigating a crime they may (depending on the severity of the crime, and the ease of access to the CCTV) trawl through CCTV footage from relevant cameras - they can ask the operators to give them access.

HiToAll

Is this money saving expert, or is it 'how to commit the perfect crime expert '

on a completely unrelated theme, what is the most sturdy spade i can buy?

marliepanda

OP has two usernames. (See post on child maintenance forum where he posts as the op but isn't)

All of them seem weirdly paranoid and off.

Bigphil1474

Perhaps he's thinking of getting one to monitor his ex's movements.

Le_Kirk

Wild_Rover wrote: »

Maybe folk are being a little unkind. This could be research for someone's first crime novel.

............ or someone's first crime!

agrinnall

They can track you by the barcode on your tin foil hat.

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agrinnall wrote: »

They can track you by the barcode on your tin foil hat.

Not to mention that when you are a child, your immunizations contain miniaturised RFID chiplets. If you are near to a mobile phone mast, they can amplify the signal enough to provide a location, within about 10m, or nearly anyone in the UK.