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CCTV Network Tracks Getaway Car

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the but-can-it-recognize-a-good-deal-on-car-insurance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is reporting that a 'pioneering number plate recognition system in Bradford played a vital role in the arrests of six suspects' after the murder of a Policewoman - within minutes of Friday's shootings, police were using the system to track the suspected getaway car." From the article: "When a car is entered on the system it will 'ping' whenever it passes one of our cameras, which makes it a lot easier to track than waiting for a patrol car to spot it."

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  1. Re:Shooting?? I thought the UK had strict gun cont by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is there anything in this world that won't make you shove a gun up your ass while you masturbate, you filty gun-nut??

  2. So by ch-chuck · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Big deal - the criminals will get a good lawyer, popular support and outcries of injustice and ethnic discrimination in the press, a slap on the wrist and will be out on the street again in a few years. 90% of the crime is committed by 10% of the criminals that the liberal system lets free over and over. If you want to stop crime, lock 'em up for good or bring back public executions.

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