Speed Limits: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

(asked on 29th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to enable local communities in cooperation with the police to use information accrued from ANPR to prosecute drivers who regularly break the speed limit.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 2nd May 2019

Speeding offences can only be enforced by speed cameras using laser or radar that have met the requirements of Home Office Type Approval. There are, therefore, no plans to develop ANPR cameras to detect speeding offences.

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