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  Find A Terrorist Speed Cameras Being Reviewed For Oz

By David Richards | Wednesday | 2007-07-04

Speed cameras that helped police capture two terrorist suspects last week by matching passing number plates with a "Wanted" database are being investigated for use in Australia by several State Governments.

The new camera technology operates, over 5 lanes of traffic at once and is capable of identifying stolen or suspect motor vehicles.

The new cameras, which have the capacity to capture images at 1200 x 1600 resolution even in poor conditions, are being sought by various Australian Governments in an effort to raise additional revenue, a Dutch executive of the company that makes the cameras has admitted.

Last week British police entered the motor registration number of the suspect motor vehicle driven by the would be terrorists  into a central database. Images of passing motor vehicles were in real time captured and compared with the sought vehicle. when the vehicle was spotted on the M6 Motorway in Cheshire police were able to alert police cars in the vicinity of the vehicle to stop it.

Aspect Traffic of North Ryde has supplied more than 20 mobile automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) systems to the NSW Police abd are currently in discussions with both Federal and New South Wales Police to supply additional ANPR systems .  Five major police services are now using Aspect AutoKit, including the Australian Federal Police, the Western Australia Police Service, South Australia Police and Tasmania Police.

Stephen Gateley, Managing Director of Aspect Traffic said "We have recently held discussions with the Federal Police in Australia about number recognition camera for Australia's national highways. They are very keen on the technology". 

The "24x7" national vehicle movement database in the UK logs everything on UK's roads and is capable of retaining the data for at least two years. The system, which uses Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) software is overseen from a control centre in Hendon, London, is a sort of 'Gatso 2' network, extending. enhancing and linking existing CCTV, ANPR and speedcam systems and databases.

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