The ANPR technology is in popular usage now. This is an extremely accurate system that reads vehicle number plates through the Optical Character Recognition technology. ANPR is used to deter, detect, as well as disrupt criminal activities at regional, local, and national levels.

1. The ANPR technology
Automatic number-plate Recognition

2. The ANPR technology is in
popular usage now.
This is an extremely accurate system that reads vehicle number plates
through the Optical Character Recognition technology. ANPR is used to
deter, detect, as well as disrupt criminal activities at regional, local and
the national levels.

3. How ANPR Works?

4. As a vehicle passes the ANPR camera, the registration number gets read
as well as instantly checked against the records maintained of vehicles
of interest. This aids in the detection of offences and makes it easy to
locate stolen vehicles, solve cases of terrorism, tackle uninsured vehicle
use as well as solve major organised crimes.

5. How useful is ANPR?

6. The Police force simply loves ANPR.
They insist that the network aids detecting, deterring and disrupting
‘criminality’. This includes tackling the travelling criminals, the organised group
crimes as well as terrorists. Here is an attempt to trace the complete process
step by step.

7. • The camera identifies the number plate. This is usually done using an infrared beam reflecting off
the number plate.
• A software takes the number plate; it adjusts the contrast and the brightness and skews it so that
the numbers are ‘straight on’.
• The software picks out the numbers and passes the information to other requisite programmes.
Standardisation of the typeface and number plate size has helped in developing the accuracy of
the ANPR systems substantially.

8. Checking out on the ANPR data helps to ascertain whether the vehicle
of a known criminal was present when the crime took place; this can
speed up investigation dramatically.

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