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Automatic Number Plate Recognition system checks for motorists who have failed to pay their vehicle tax at this mobile checkpoint set up near Manchester, England. The camera reads the license plate number of each passing car and matches it against a national database in a fraction of a second. The operator in the front seat of a car confirms the match, and violators are arrested up the road by a waiting police car.

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$Automatic Number Plate Recognition system checks for motorists who have failed to pay their vehicle tax at this mobile checkpoint set up near Manchester, England. The camera reads the license plate number of each passing car and matches it against a national database in a fraction of a second. The operator in the front seat of a car confirms the match, and violators are arrested up the road by a waiting police car.$