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  • The ring of steel has been largely dismantled during the past ten years and replaced with 190 CCTV and number-plate recognition cameras

    Satisfied? Confident? You Will Be…… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • But the barriers have been largely dismantled during the past ten years and replaced with 190 CCTV and number-plate recognition cameras.

    Satisfied? Confident? You Will Be…… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Should we create an automatic number-plate recognition surveillance network on our roads to catch people not wearing their seatbelts?

    NOW TERRORIST DOLE SCROUNGERS AREN'T WEARING THEIR SEATBELTS amuchmoreexotic 2006

  • Anna had lifted the cover to check the number-plate and then, being on best behaviour, called into the station to suggest they remove the Mercedes to be checked over by forensics.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • Gendarmes and security guards zealously guard its entrance, refusing anyone without a special ID badge or who is not dressed in full spandex team kit and pedaling a multi-thousand-dollar bicycle with a number-plate attached.

    The Tour de France's Village Within a Village 2008

  • Anna had lifted the cover to check the number-plate and then, being on best behaviour, called into the station to suggest they remove the Mercedes to be checked over by forensics.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • Actually, I'm not sure if encouraging suicide bombers to drive safely on the way to a mission is a good thing or a bad thing, but I'm relieved that the number-plate recognition system is so clever that it will only provide intelligence on "multiple offenders" and not track every driver in the country.

    NOW TERRORIST DOLE SCROUNGERS AREN'T WEARING THEIR SEATBELTS amuchmoreexotic 2006

  • Anna had lifted the cover to check the number-plate and then, being on best behaviour, called into the station to suggest they remove the Mercedes to be checked over by forensics.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • I couldn't even recall the colour of the car, let alone the number-plate.

    World's worst witness StyleyGeek 2007

  • I couldn't even recall the colour of the car, let alone the number-plate.

    Archive 2007-02-01 StyleyGeek 2007

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