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Motors un marked car with camera next to it

Discussion in 'General' started by cookie! nom nom, 11 Mar 2014.

  1. cookie! nom nom

    cookie! nom nom Minimodder

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    I was driving past a unmarked police car that had a camera set up next to it. I am sure I was not speeding but I am a bit paranoid. is it a speed check or are they after people that don't have tax/mot.
     
  2. Porkins' Wingman

    Porkins' Wingman Can't touch this

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    Wait a couple of months and you'll have a better idea...
     
  3. wiby645

    wiby645 Minimodder

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    probably anpr camera, there is one outside my work place every weekend. they just sit there scanning plates until the computer says no
     
  4. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    It could have been a DVLA car, but they're usually marked cars with big signs saying "Tax Disc Checking". Was it a smallish camera set up on a tripod next to the car?
     
  5. ulfar

    ulfar holy s**t, i can change this?

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    and that's legal? :eeek:
     
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    cookie! nom nom Minimodder

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    yes small and the camra was on a tripod . my friend said it was two offices in uniform Inside with a computer. the car and camra was unmarked as well as the cam
     
  7. mrlongbeard

    mrlongbeard Multimodder

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    Yeah, why not, they're only looking for no insurance, mot or tax.
     
  8. mrbungle

    mrbungle Undercooked chicken giver

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    Pretty sure the car has to be marked and/or Camera signs/repeaters along the road.

    Imagine the uproar if unmarked cars were sniping people for speeding, there would be meltdown.
     
  9. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    Maybe the local force is short of a few pennies at the moment?
     
  10. Kovoet

    Kovoet What's a Dremel?

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    I got nailed a few years back the same way near Guilford. They are crafty but thank God I wasn't on my bike that day otherwise they would have thrown the keys away
     
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  11. julianmartin

    julianmartin resident cyborg.

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    For speeding specifically, yes. For catching out uninsured or no tax drivers, no.
     
  12. Atomic

    Atomic Gerwaff

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    Most likely this, there will be marked units further up the road to actually stop any cars that get flagged up. On a busy road it's a very easy way to pickup multiple offenders in a small space of time, so is efficient and a good use of resources.

    To my knowledge only the DVLA, VOSA & Police use roadside ANPR.

    Come October when tax discs are done away with I'm sure we will see more of these check points.
     
  13. GeorgeK

    GeorgeK Swinging the banhammer Super Moderator

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    That must have been fun... What's that got to do with speeding exactly? :lol:
     
  14. Kovoet

    Kovoet What's a Dremel?

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    Fixed ouch that nearly hurt
     
  15. Ending Credits

    Ending Credits Bunned

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    Freudian slip: When you say one thing and mean your mother.
     
  16. Cei

    Cei pew pew pew

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    Lots of patrol cars have ANPR cameras in them, running constantly. They check for insurance/tax, but also the police database to see if they have an interest in the vehicle. Certainly isn't illegal for them to be doing it.
     
  17. mrbungle

    mrbungle Undercooked chicken giver

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    Im pretty sure the OP only cares about the speeding element, if his insurance and tax are in order :D
     
  18. Atomic

    Atomic Gerwaff

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    Are you from the US by any chance?

    I know a few of my American friends were amazed by the use of ANPR in the UK as in the US it's seen a government spying so isn't widely used.

    Gun ownership seems to make them a little paranoid ;) [can of worms]
     

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