New York ANPR cameras to track all vehicles

New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly announced a major project to install licence plate reader cameras in every lane of traffic on all of the bridges and tunnels that serve as entrances and exits to Manhattan. Currently, Kelly said, the NYPD has complete coverage on the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges and the Battery and Holland Tunnels. Licence plate cameras will be commissioned for additional bridges by this summer. The devices can quickly scan licence plate numbers and subm
March 20, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly announced a major project to install licence plate reader cameras in every lane of traffic on all of the bridges and tunnels that serve as entrances and exits to Manhattan.

Currently, Kelly said, the NYPD has complete coverage on the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges and the Battery and Holland Tunnels. Licence plate cameras will be commissioned for additional bridges by this summer. The devices can quickly scan licence plate numbers and submit the time and place they were captured to a database.

Kelly also said the department has mounted a high-resolution camera on an NYPD helicopter, with sophisticated down-link technology to provide real-time, high-quality video of incidents as they unfold.

The licence plate data, together with data from other major NYPD electronic surveillance initiatives, will be fed into a US$30-40 million comprehensive Domain Awareness System dashboard produced by Microsoft.
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