Gardai with Motor tax/insurance recognition device

shawnee · 08-03-2012 09:41AM #1

I have spoken to a few people who have been pulled over by traffic corps recently and without even being asked , they were advised that their vehicle wasn't taxed and in one case that the vehicle was not insured. Apparently cars are now equipped with a device that when the cars number is screened this information is shown to gardai. I wonder how avalable this equipment is and how it works , does the car number have to be keyed in or does it just screen a number of cars and pick up the dodgy ones

In the insurance case it did turn out that the car was actually insured but in the tax case , she was handed an on the spot fine and he didn't even look at the windscreen :rolleyes:

kwalshe · 08-03-2012 09:44AM

google anpr, most of the traffic cars have them.

jack presley · 08-03-2012 09:47AM

They'd have a field day around my area then. There's loads of cars in my estate with tax months (6+) out of date

Kev. · 08-03-2012 10:02AM

Hopefully they are starting to use them,

The amount of cars I see that aren't roadworthy or not tax and insured out there is disgraceful.

conzy · 08-03-2012 10:05AM

The system is call ANPR, it uses number plate recognition (like in the M50 toll) and then it can check if the motor tax / insurance is in date. Was stopped the other day and the guard showed me the screen, looks pretty cool, I came up as uninsured I dunno If its because I only have the car a few weeks or because of the Quinn / liberty changeover

whippet · 08-03-2012 10:09AM

have a look at one of those shows on Sky / Dave / GOLD etc .. Car Wars, Traffic Cops, Road Wars etc ... they have been in use in the UK for years and they can scan hundreds of cars every minute and flagging reg plates which throw up something fishy .. no insurance, MOT (in the UK), tax, unpaid fines, criminal history relating to the car (as in used for transporting drugs) ...

They even use these cameras in some of the cites and they scan the cars passing looking for all sorts of offenses especially unpaid fines etc ..

creedp · 08-03-2012 10:27AM

jack presley wrote: »

They'd have a field day around my area then. There's loads of cars in my estate with tax months (6+) out of date

Its seems to be endemic at this point, especially with tax. The amount of cars I see with tax more than a month out of date is increasing all the time. At a time when Govt is debating changing the tax system to increase revenue, they should really consider asking the Gardai the enforce the current system. Its typical though we never enforce anything and instead prefer to make it harder for those who are actually compliant.

Fiona · 08-03-2012 11:00AM

shawnee wrote: »

Apparently cars are now equipped with a device that when the cars number is screened this information is shown to gardai.

Do ya not read the news at all?

shawnee · 08-03-2012 11:06AM

mrs crilly wrote: »

Do ya not read the news at all?

Naw too busy to listen to the same drivel every day about the economy etc , and wait for one interesting news item that I haven't heard before:D Much better to get information that I require in boards and similar websites

But hey what ever rocks your boat and keeps you happy.

Have seen those yokes in uk and other countries but didn't know for sure if they operated here.

Anan1 · 08-03-2012 11:10AM

shawnee wrote: »

Naw too busy to listen to the same drivel every day about the economy etc , and wait for one interesting news item that I haven't heard before:D Much better to get information that I require in boards and similar websites
But hey what ever rocks your boat and keeps you happy.

We've had ANPR here for years.;)

MugMugs · 08-03-2012 11:29AM

shawnee wrote: »

Naw too busy to listen to the same drivel every day about the economy etc , and wait for one interesting news item that I haven't heard before:D Much better to get information that I require in boards and similar websites
But hey what ever rocks your boat and keeps you happy.

Have seen those yokes in uk and other countries but didn't know for sure if they operated here.

One of our main Motorways also has reg plate recognition. Abeit it is not used for the purposes of identifying vehicles which do not have TAX or Insurance.
The M1 has a system they call ITS I believe. It reads the reg at the start of the motorway and during the trip and calculates the average travel time from one end to the other. For a long time I thought that the electronic signs displaying travel time to "Dundalk" or "Drogheda" or even the Tunnel were just input by some bored tech somewhere in a control room. Apparently it is all down to this handy little device.

08-03-2012 11:32AM

Kev. wrote: »

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The amount of cars I see that aren't roadworthy or not tax and insured out there is disgraceful.

Won't do much about that.

xzodia · 08-03-2012 01:04PM

Happened to me before on a car i just bought and they said the car automatically shoes up as no insurance if tax is out.. luckely i was able to prove it was insured as i got my insurance to mail me when i ask for the change of car

Kev. · 08-03-2012 01:05PM

RoverJames wrote: »

Won't do much about that.

If the get stopped for tax or insurance surely the police would check for NCT etc?

A-Trak · 08-03-2012 01:06PM

RoverJames wrote: »

Won't do much about that.

Valid NCT, no?

08-03-2012 01:11PM

A-Trak wrote: »

Valid NCT, no?

I don't think the NCT info is checked, not 100% sure though.
Even if it is it's not really a measure of a car's roadworthiness a month or so after the test.

the culture of deference · 08-03-2012 01:20PM

Is the ANPR system updated everyday for tax, or do the gardai have a direct link.
I taxed wifes car the other day, disc has not arrived, what will it show up as?

Also where do they get insurance details, is it only from what you provide when you tax car?

Gardai with Motor tax/insurance recognition device

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