VIC:New technology targets unlicensed drivers

AAP General News (Australia)
12-17-2010
VIC:New technology targets unlicensed drivers

MELBOURNE, Dec 17 AAP - Unlicensed and unauthorised drivers will be targeted by a new
hi-tech weapon on Victorian roads this Christmas.

The new Automatic Number Plate Recognition Technology (ANPRT) will be fully rolled
out as part of its major statewide Christmas road blitz, Operation AEGIS.

Ten will be deployed across the state, scanning number plates at a rapid rate and identifying
unauthorised drivers.

Since Victoria Police began trialling ANPRT in December 2007, more than one million
number plates have been read, detecting more than 13,000 unauthorised drivers.

The ANPRT systems will be placed in strategic areas identified through road trauma data.

Deputy Commissioner (Road Policing) Ken Lay said while the rest of the state was winding
down over Christmas, police were gearing up for one of their busiest periods.

"Over the next 24 days, police will be across roads in every corner of the state. We
will be breath-testing one million drivers for the Christmas period," he said.

"Twenty four hours a day, every single day for the next 24 days, police will be working."

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KEYWORD: AEGIS

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