Eight arrested in ANPR sting in Watford and wider Hertfordshire area (From Watford Observer)

Eight arrested in ANPR sting in Watford and wider Hertfordshire area

4:14pm Tuesday 16th March 2010 in

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Eight people were arrested on Friday afternoon and three "wanted" criminal suspects detained in a series of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) operations across the county.

Police set up a number of ANPR traps across, including one in Altham Way, South Oxhey, in a bid to take dangerous and uninsured vehicles off the road and.

A total of 44 Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) were handed out to drivers talking on mobile phones, not wearing seatbelts and travelling without a valid MOT.

Seven unsafe cars were also taken away.

Officers, using the state-of-the-art technology in the ongoing Operation Sentinel, are instantly alerted to unregistered vehicles or those connected to known criminals.

Hertfordshire Chief Constable Frank Whiteley said: "We have used ANPR to stop in their tracks hundreds of criminals including burglars, robbers, drug dealers and dangerous drivers. We will continue to target anyone tempted to come into the county to commit crime or risk the safety of innocent motorists.”