Puppy,
are you in the dark ages?
The internet is littered with hundreds of success stories regarding ANPRā¦itās one of the best tools the police have at thier disposal for locating all sorts of offenders in vehicles.
The fact they have asked the public to be vigilant regarding a particular vehicle will be purely because it hasnāt gone through any ANPR sitesā¦once it does i can assure you an intercept bike will pull it in.
BBC 18th July 2007:
āThe BBC reports that the Metropolitan Policeās new Counter Terrorism Command is understood to have used TfLās camera data in tracing the movement of the cars employed by blundering wannabe jihadi dunces last month in a wildly incompetent series of āattacksā which injured nobody except one of their own number.ā
ANPR is one of those tools that works really well now but as soon as the undesirables realise how easy it is to avoid it, they will. (Are doing now apparantly) There are several ways round ANPR and all are easy, especially if youāre a criminal with a bit of cash or a terrorist, at the end of the day itās Mr and Mrs Muggins who end up picking up the tab for it and we gain big brother.
They have already got fixed ANPR cameras, feeding back location data into to a central database. Itās not long before that data will be used to calculate average speeds and isolate vehicles that were in a particular area at a certain time. Thereās a lot more to come from ANPR and itās got nothing to do with terrorists or criminals, theyāre not as daft as the government think the rest of us are 
Nobody buys a newspaper to read good news! apparently.
Talking of which are these what the cameras that have just arrived on the A2 at the bottom of the hill near blackheath (just before the tea hut on the way south where the road narrows from 2 to 1 lanes up the hill). 3 little white cameras pointing each way on a very tall pole?
thereās already a GATSO coming down the hill so it canāt be that. Theyāve arrived since last weekend 
ANPR is brilliant.
Some cameras have sprung up on the A1 southbound just near the Archway bridge. Are those ANPR?
Theyāre very tall and have 4 or 5 camera pods on them.
I heard a rumour they are trialing these cameras some where on a motorway. Idea being that they will get your number plate between to fixed points and measure your average speed. Then some plodmobil will be waiting at a convenient location and pull you for the speeding offence you didnt realise you just commited.
Dunno how tru it is though
And yes ANPR is good
Thatās a āSPECSā cameraā¦work in the same way a Gatso does so donāt expect a tug further down the roadā¦an NIP on your doormat is the preferred notificationā¦
Iāve seen this as a news story on London Tonight a while back.
Why do you think there has been so much talk about bikes being pulled for small number plates? Think about it.