Hi-Tech OPP Cameras
It seems that Ontario’s provincial police have a new tool at their disposal:
| The Ontario Provincial Police are now better able to detect crime and identify offenders on our roads and highways, thanks to a sophisticated licence plate recognition project launched at a news conference in Toronto today.
OPP cruisers equipped with the new Automatic Licence Plate Recognition (ALPR) system now have the ability to scan thousands of licence plates per day, and officers can more quickly and easily identify stolen and ALPR is state-of-the-art technology that involves the use of a stationary camera which is mounted on a police vehicle. The Automatic Licence Plate Recognition system has outstanding image capture capability and the camera has the ability to scan licence plates that enter the camera’s field of view whether the vehicle is moving, parked or even travelling at a high rate of speed. Once the camera captures the plate’s image, it is checked against a police and Ministry of Transportation (MTO) database “hotlist” of licence plates that are in poor standing such as, for example, those associated with stolen vehicles, plates that are suspended, reported stolen or missing and those with expired validation tags. The OPP’s ALPR project consists of three fully marked OPP vehicles equipped with the latest ALPR and Mobile Workstation technology. One will be deployed in the GTA, one in Eastern Ontario and the other in Northern |
Do you think that police should be able to introduce this kind of tool, even if they get the blessing from provincial legislators? Should there have to be broad-based public consultation and agreement first?
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This would work well in conjunction with registered GPS in automobiles. Stolen? Speeding? Wrong way on a one-way street?
Add automatic ticketing and it’s all accounted for.