I've spoken to a police officer that had one of these systems installed in his cruiser. He said the system can only recogonize the letters & numbers on the plate, not the issuing state. This creates false alarms when, for example, Michigan plate "123XYZ" passes by the cruiser, and Colorado plate "123XYZ" is flagged in the database for some reason.
The software throws up a flashing red window whenever it detects a "hit". The officer is then supposed to visually confirm the state of the flagged plate w/ the state of the scanned plate.
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I've spoken to a police officer that had one of these systems installed in his cruiser. He said the system can only recogonize the letters & numbers on the plate, not the issuing state. This creates false alarms when, for example, Michigan plate "123XYZ" passes by the cruiser, and Colorado plate "123XYZ" is flagged in the database for some reason.
The software throws up a flashing red window whenever it detects a "hit". The officer is then supposed to visually confirm the state of the flagged plate w/ the state of the scanned plate.