Vehicle Number Plates: Automatic Number Plate Recognition
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the number of ghost plates in circulation.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council, various police forces and Trading Standards in relation to the supply and use of illegal number plates as well as number plates with raised characters, commonly known as ‘4D plates’. Some 4D plates can also be described as ‘ghost’ plates where the characters are constructed from materials that are unable to be read by infrared Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems. Work is currently ongoing to quantify the number of illegal plates that may be in circulation, including ‘ghost’ plates.
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