CCTV Network Tracks Getaway Car

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."

Comments

Interesting, but too many unknowns

[grimsweep]

How does this system handle brand new cars which don't have plates? What about a thief who swaps the plates in a back alley before moving on?

So many ways to get around???

[technoextreme]

That actually blot off the license plates to cameras watching them. Or how about repaint the plate so it says another number. How about steal another set of plates. Remove the licencse plates??? Place them in the windsheild of their car so the cameras don't see them. Any other ideas??