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TOWN CENTRE CCTV USERS ADD ANPR TO FIGHT CRIME
CitySync, the leading UK and International provider of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR / ALPR), reports a significant uptake in contracts to enable existing Town Centre CCTV Systems with their ANPR / ALPR Technology.
Recent contract wins include Aylesbury, Liverpool, High Wycombe, and Windsor adding to the large pool of existing Town Centre clients. Significantly, Northampton Town Centre which was the UK’s first to add ANPR to its Town Centre CCTV system is in the process of adding to the original technology with CitySync’s.
The system works by connecting the CCTV video streams to PCs running CitySync’s recognition and application software. The number plate data is extracted and matched against up to sixty or so Police databases in real-time. When a match or ‘hit’ is made an alarm condition alerts the systems controller who will then initiate the appropriate action.
The purpose of adding ANPR technology to Town Centre CCTV systems is to reduce serious and volume crime by denying criminals the use of the roads. The strategic importance of this in the fight against crime should not be underestimated. Denying criminals’ use of the roads prevents access to the primary means of transport for a whole raft of criminal activity. It includes the transportation of drugs, stolen property and articles for use in crime and transport to and from the scenes of crimes such as robberies and burglaries as well as vehicle offences in their own right.
Funding comes largely from the Home Office through Project Laser which was highly successful in its Phase I trials:
“Results from the pilot exceeded expectations: In the first 26 weeks of ANPR Project Laser 1, ANPR enabled intercept police officers in the 9 pilot forces stopped 39,429 vehicles leading to 3,080 arrests. It also achieved over 100 arrests per-full time ANPR officer per year - the average for police officers is 10 per year”. – Source Home Office Press Release 6.05.04
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