Posted: 2/1/2008 2:52:06 PM EDT
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Anyone else using the plate scan system.... Good results so far? |
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man i would love to know more about this. I have always though it would be a good idea to have a system that would automatically scan plates and run them tcic/ncic (state and local registry) I just wasnt sure how it would be done. maybe with some kind of laser or camera with optical image recognition or something. anyhow, i would love to know how much these things cost for a department purchase and i little more about the general operating system. |
Those are some great numbers..... I like 69s the best  We have 2 cars. Not sure what the system name is, but they are out of UT. They must have been entered into our separate database and aren't directly ran into NCIC/NLETS. The database is updated constantly, but must be downloaded to the unit it the car. |
| My dept has the Remington ELSAG mobile plate hunter. It is a unit that can be moved from car to car as needed. Its a fantastic system, it shows all stolen vehicle hits, suspended registrations and we also program it for local scofflaw vehicles. It is also very handy for finding "lost"cars. You can put a plate into the system and if that plate was previously scanned, it gives you the coordinates it was scanned at. Popular mechanics used my department for an article on it a few months ago. We have had great success with it so far and will probably be getting some more. |
10851 C.V.C. = Stolen vehicle 245 P.C. = Assault with a deadly weapon 187 P.C. = Murder Translation: My department has a couple of cars equipped with the system. It leads to a lot of Stolen vehicle hits.... it's a good piece of equipment. Also does a very good job of mapping what cars are in the area when a good assault with a deadly weapon or murder comes out.  |
Why not? If we run plates using our computers in our cars it retains the record as well. With this piece of equipment it just does it in an automated fashion and logs where the information was obtained from. |
The cop part of me thinks this is a bad assed tool to help fight crime and that it really is just a force multiplier and assists me in the duties that I already perform with the motor vehicle registry system that i already use. The american citizen part of me makes me cringe at where technology is taking us and where we are headed to next. Bacially this thing could be capable of tracking and logging an individuals movement on a national scale. If these got in every patrol car and they could scan and track every plate they come across then it would almost be like putting GPS on every american citizens car. Its a cool tool its just makes me cringe a little like rfid chips do. |
You running plates in a car is a discriminatory act.... it is not a blatant record of every car. No different than a single person target for surveillance. That is fine. When you start recording everyone, then it becomes an issue. With the way depts. cower towards the ACLU I am truly surprised. |
The ACLU is concerned with discrimination and targeting of protected groups. What could be less discriminatory than targeting everyone. 
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I dont know where you live but I can go for weeks or months without a cop behind me, easy. If they were at every intersection like the traffic cams, that would be different..... |
lol excellent point. |
Im concerned that they will do this next. putting these things up at intersections wouldnt be much different than tracking every individuals movement in the US since we tend to drive the same vehicles everyday. It sounds like an excellent took if it would just scan all the time for expired registration and vehicles used in a crime and send off an audible sound when it gets a hit. Its all the logging and tracking that bothers me. Although, our plate inquiry system will tell you who that last few units were that ran a particular plate and the date that plate was run. Its not as detailed but the intent is still there. |