> > ANPR will sort out those. > > > Yer wot? > Automatic Number Plate Recognition
Camera gets a shot of a number plate, computer recognises the number (9 times out of 10), number is checked against the PNC (oops, another TLA ... damn, three letter acronym ... er, PNC = Police National Computer), and any "hits" are alerted to the operator Hits include no tax, no insurance and no MOT. They also could be unpaid parking tickets, an outstanding warrant against a known user of the vehicle etc. ANPR is also increasingly used by fuel forecourts in an effort to combat fuel theft. In this case, the system isn't linked to the PNC (as yet - I think it would be a cunning move if untaxed, uninsured vehicles were unable to fill up with petrol) but to a database of numbers previously involved in a drive-off without paying Bru
