Speed camera?????

[topbanana4]

I travel all around Leicestershire and on a few occassions I have come across what look like two police cars (sometimes silver) with a tripod at the side and a camera on top or a policeman stood with a hand held camera, this is confusing as they are not on the mobile camera database or on the BBC Leicester speed camara site either. The latest was Wednesday on the A46. Can anybody enlighten me on what thye could be please?

[Darren]

They are most likely a form of speed camera but could be ANPR.

The Safety Camera Partnership web sites list locations that safety camera vans may operate in or where fixed cameras operated by them are installed.
They do not list locations where Police may set up speed checks.

We will add such locations if reports indicate they are regular 'spots' that police use but that requires multiple submissions. However, if they are ANPR then we will not record them.
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Darren Griffin

[Andy_P]

ANPR (see Wikipaedia for details HERE) is used to spot cars with no tax or MOT etc. or criminals in general (as well as anyone else that big brother wants to keep tracks of....)

It's often difficult to differentiate between ANPR set-ups and mobile speed camera sites, but one thing is that ANPR sites *often* have extra police on bikes or further down the road to stop people, while speed camera sites just send you the bill in the post.

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