If the ANPR network was anywhere near as efficient at catching untaxed vehicles as is depicted here, surely there would be no untaxed vehicles on the road?
Well .. the ANPR probably is that efficient, the message just never makes it from the people operating it over to the DVLA..
I reckon the primary enforcement route going forward will be the DVLA comparing the V5 database to the insurance database to the tax database, and if there's a car listed on the MID or V5 database that isn't taxed or SORNed, they'll send the clampers out..
So if you never register it in your own name, never insure it and never tax it… which is probably the situation for the majority of untaxed and uninsured vehicles out there blamed for driving up all our premiums..
Or am I just cynical?
Ah, that leads me to say that with this new policy, let alone those concerning the use of mobile phones whilst driving, drink driving, etc, etc, we MUST have more traffic police out on patrol. Currently those officers out there are doing well to follow up on ANPR "pinging" and bringing many to book, but there are far too few of them. We require far more to catch the large number of motorists who think they can ignore the Road Traffic Act and blatantly do a rude gesture to the rest of us lawful drivers.
In the past however the route for reporting untaxed vehicles was direct to the DVLA via a telephone call rather than direct to the police, who always insisted you went to the DVLA first. It would take ages for the DVLA to react. Now, with ANPR the police are directly, and unavoidably, involved in catching an offending motorist when the system "ping's". What could be better and faster than that? In addition, as often a motorist committing one offence usually is committing others, the police capture more than just an untaxed motorist.
As for the vehicle being registered in a different name, or/and a false address, this would be a problem with just the DVLA involved, However, with a police stop on the vehicle a driver and it's vehicle is fully checked out, with now a growing use of mobile finger print technology, it can be quickly established what really could be the truth. Add to that of course the police have the power to seize an uninsured vehicle and arrest the driver for numerous offences as applicable. In short, there is now No Hiding Place, and this will be increasingly true. ANPR along with police officers armed with additional technologies will be making a big difference, as indeed they are already doing so!
As said though we must have more traffic officers!
Power to those out there already though!
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