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UK: Anti-terrorist camera system

01 January 1998

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The City of London Police's anti-terrorist camera system can feed back data from the scanned number-plates of vehicles in just four seconds. Put in place four years ago the Automatic Number Plate Recognition system devised by Siemens Nixdorf is also used to tackle crime more generally, when a car "wanted" by the police comes up the operations room is automatically alerted. At peak times the system checks 10,000 vehicles an hour.

International Police Review, July-August 1997.

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