North Yorkshire Polices's new local ANPR cameras

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-33833932

Version 0 of 1.

Twenty new moveable Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras are to be used by local policing teams in North Yorkshire.

The cameras were purchased with part of a £1m investment in ANPR announced last year, said the force.

ANPR reads vehicle number plates, checks against a police database and notifies officers of possible offences.

If an area has a spate of burglaries the new cameras can be set up there and later moved to another locality.

The force has 6,000 miles of roads, and said about 20% of all detected crime in North Yorkshire was committed by criminals travelling into the county.

Assistant Chief Constable Paul Kennedy said: "We need to be one step ahead of criminals who use the roads to carry out their illegal activity."