Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology cuts Manchester crime / Public Technology, 29 November 2007
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"Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has helped the Trafford Centre shopping complex cut vehicle crime by 65 per cent using Civica's Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology. The £285,000 ANPR system has been part funded by the Home Office and praised by Home Office Minister Baroness Scotland earlier this year after incidents at the shopping centre were reduced from an average of 40 per month to just eight. The Trafford Centre has approximately 20 million visitors each year."