[USA] NYPD's Latest Technology Catches Car Thieves / Officer.com, 16 January 2007
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=34417&siteSection=20
TOM LIDDY ; PATRICK WHITE
"Car thieves, beware - you can run but you can't hide from the NYPD's latest technology.
The system uses two cameras on top of a patrol car that are linked to an onboard computer with a license-plate database. It can scan up to four lanes of traffic, including vehicles doing 120 mph.
Images of the plates are captured - up to 10,000 per police shift - processed by the computer using character-recognition technology, and then compared to the nationwide database."