Rogue drivers snapped in police crackdown

 

A SINGLE camera using digital technology to detect disqualified drivers is catching three banned drivers an hour.

Between 600 and 700 number plates an hour are being scanned in a police trial of the technology, which was tested in Moorabbin yesterday.

Details of the trial were released as the Herald Sun yesterday revealed cars could be seized in a plan to tackle the surge in disqualified drivers defying their bans.

Police said the trial was still in its early stages, but had already shown automated number plate recognition technology could substantially increase the likelihood of catching disqualified or suspended drivers.

The digital technology instantly identifies cars that are registered to a disqualified or suspended driver.

Supt Kevin Casey said police figures showed that disqualified drivers were involved in 10 per cent of all fatal road crashes.

Research showed that disqualified drivers were up to nine times more likely to be involved in a crash than other motorists.

And a report by the Sentencing Advisory Council released yesterday revealed many motorists caught driving while disqualified or suspended had also committed other offences.

More than 15 per cent of the 8819 drivers sentenced in the three years up to 2006-07 were also charged with drink driving and almost a third were driving an unregistered vehicle.

Brian Negus, RACV general manager of public policy, said the organisation supported number plate recognition "as long as privacy is respected and it's only used to identify number plates and not occupants in the vehicles".

 

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Yeh thats exactly what I thought when I read that exact line lol. Unfknreal lol

Exactly FLAN. One case of policing where it counts. Not cos a passing Harley was loud or someone went three k's over some limit...

The cheats on disqualifications might as well just cover their plates or use fake/knock-off ones. Might as well go the whole hog...

This has been in WA for over a year already.........

Bt

if you were disqualified why wouldn't ya just use a car regoed in someone elses name, save all the worry. heheheh!

Gday Bobtail its been here for over a yr also, but doesnt hurt to remind people

Revenue raising, and pretending the have control of the world cos there a bunch of dictators. That just about covers it

And we thought this was a free country where privacy was a right, of course this technology will be abused, they are now driving through streets identifying cars overparking their set limits and automatically issuing tickets....getting sick of this...might head for the bush............

fuck they have been doing it to truckies for years ....... you know them fatige camra's ya see all over the place on hwys around nsw ........ tthey are the origin of number plate recognition been doing it gor years only now are computors fast enought to process the amount of info being throwen at em