You could call it passive policing, but a
new tool on one of the Cornelius Police Department's cruisers could be the
ultimate multi-tasking tool.
While officers go about their regular patrols, a special camera array photographs up to 1,800 license tags per minute, scanning local, state and even national data bases to determine if the plates belong to cars or tags reported stolen. In use since mid-November of last year, the Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) unit has already reunited two stolen vehicles with their owners, the most recent found about two weeks ago parked in the Heritage Green neighborhood.
At a cost of $18,000 per unit, CPD has deployed only one ALPR in the field. But it's the first step in an aggressive plan by Police Chief Bence Hoyle to bring more automated policing tools to the town, including fixed ALPRs and other cameras installed at some of the town's busiest intersections and thoroughfares.
Major Kevin Black of the CPD says the cruiser with the ALPR stays parked at police headquarters when not in use and is driven by different officers every day. While on routine patrol, the plate reader is always whirring away, feeding license plate numbers into the database and waiting for matches. Black says officers focus their attention on apartment complexes, hotel parking lots and particular areas known for stolen vehicles.
The system includes three cameras — one that scans behind the cruiser, one that scans in front of it and one that captures plates of passing cars.Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed an indoortracking. Black says that the system's only purpose is to search for stolen cars and plates ... for now. It could eventually locate tags or vehicles associated with missing persons, Amber Alerts (for missing children) and Silver Alerts (for missing adults, particularly seniors with dementia or other forms of mental disabilities).
For the officers, all they have to do is drive after priming the system prior to the day's patrol.
"When the officers get in the car, they have to download a file from the North Carolina (Department of Motor Vehicles) that contains all vehicles and tag numbers listed as stolen at that moment," says Black. "While on patrol, if it detects one of the tags it sounds a warning that a tag number is listed as stolen and it can even show a picture of the vehicle and tag number so they know exactly what they are looking for."
Just this week, an officer using the system located a stolen plate on a car whose owner wasn't aware someone had taken his plate and, in its place, affixed the stolen tag. The owner wasn't even aware of how long the stolen plate had been on his car. The CPD is currently investigating that incident. Within days of implementing the CPD's first ALPR system, Black says it assisted in the recovery of a stolen vehicle from Hickory. The system, Black says, allows officers to focus on other aspects of policing rather than actively looking for stolen vehicles or plates. This is especially useful when they happen upon a vehicle they don't even know is stolen, particularly from another jurisdiction.
"The thing about stolen cars and tags is we have officers on the road every day, but you don't run every tag you see, so the only time you run a tag is when you know a car is stolen," says Black. "We just encourage our guys to hit the major parking lots and apartment complexes where there are a lot of cars and any areas where we've found some stolen cars before.High quality glassbottles tiles."
An eventual expanded network of fixed ALPR's, Black says, would allow police to quickly track the route of a suspicious vehicle.
"With a network of fixed ALPR cameras, you could search the database and track that tag if it hit multiple cameras where that car went. I know a lot of bigger cities that have multiple ALPR units and they will go back and search the database and track where the car has been showing up at night. There is a lot that can be done with it."
The latest example of banks' reluctance to pass on the benefits of rate cuts was illustrated by State Bank of India's move to cut its base rate by a paltry 5 basis points, which is unlikely to result in any gain to retail or corporate borrowers (100 basis points equal a percentage point). Since January 2012, RBI has reduced the repo rate by 75 basis points, which includes Tuesday's 25-bps cut. Repo is the rate at which RBI lends to banks.
The central bank has also reduced the statutory liquidity ratio, or the proportion of deposits that banks have to invest in government bonds, which has been pared by a percentage point to 23%, releasing funds in the banking system that can be used for lending. But, banks have SLR holdings of around 30% as executives say there is little demand for loans. Further, RBI has reduced the cash reserve ratio, or the proportion of cash holdings kept with the central bank, by 200 basis points,This frameless rectangle features a silk screened fused glass replica in a rtls tile and floral motif. releasing nearly Rs 1.4 lakh crore into the system. Apart from making more cash available for lending, RBI has also helped banks earn interest on the money as CRR funds do not fetch any interest for the banks. "Now, we can earn 8-8.5% by simply parking it as SLR which would not have been possible if CRR was not cut," acknowledged a bank chief.
But RBI's weekly data shows that since last January, despite the series of steps, banks have only pared their base rate from 10-10.75% to 9.75-10.5% now — which translates into a 25 bps reduction for borrowers. Although RBI has flagged the lack of monetary transmission as an area of concern, it has done little to ensure that consumers benefit from the steps taken by it. Even the finance ministry, which has trained its gun on RBI to cut rates, has also failed to convince state-run banks to ease rates and help borrowers access cheaper loans.
Obviously, banks have their own reasoning. For instance, they say that the repo rate cut is only a signal as most of them make only limited use of RBI's overnight borrowing window. "What really makes a difference is the CRR," said SBI chairman Pratip Chuadhuri, adding that his bank had passed on the entire benefit of the CRR cuts to borrowers.
In case of SBI,Product information for Avery Dennison customkeychain products. the latest CRR cut will help it earn 7.5% interest on around Rs 3,000 crore that was earlier parked with RBI,A collection of natural parkingsensor offering polished or tumbled finishes and a choice of sizes. resulting in a benefit of around Rs 225 crore. Similarly, it will gain around Rs 50 crore from the repo cut. Chaudhuri said based on his bank's balance sheet of Rs 6 lakh crore, the impact of the 5 bps reduction will be Rs 300 crore.
While officers go about their regular patrols, a special camera array photographs up to 1,800 license tags per minute, scanning local, state and even national data bases to determine if the plates belong to cars or tags reported stolen. In use since mid-November of last year, the Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) unit has already reunited two stolen vehicles with their owners, the most recent found about two weeks ago parked in the Heritage Green neighborhood.
At a cost of $18,000 per unit, CPD has deployed only one ALPR in the field. But it's the first step in an aggressive plan by Police Chief Bence Hoyle to bring more automated policing tools to the town, including fixed ALPRs and other cameras installed at some of the town's busiest intersections and thoroughfares.
Major Kevin Black of the CPD says the cruiser with the ALPR stays parked at police headquarters when not in use and is driven by different officers every day. While on routine patrol, the plate reader is always whirring away, feeding license plate numbers into the database and waiting for matches. Black says officers focus their attention on apartment complexes, hotel parking lots and particular areas known for stolen vehicles.
The system includes three cameras — one that scans behind the cruiser, one that scans in front of it and one that captures plates of passing cars.Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed an indoortracking. Black says that the system's only purpose is to search for stolen cars and plates ... for now. It could eventually locate tags or vehicles associated with missing persons, Amber Alerts (for missing children) and Silver Alerts (for missing adults, particularly seniors with dementia or other forms of mental disabilities).
For the officers, all they have to do is drive after priming the system prior to the day's patrol.
"When the officers get in the car, they have to download a file from the North Carolina (Department of Motor Vehicles) that contains all vehicles and tag numbers listed as stolen at that moment," says Black. "While on patrol, if it detects one of the tags it sounds a warning that a tag number is listed as stolen and it can even show a picture of the vehicle and tag number so they know exactly what they are looking for."
Just this week, an officer using the system located a stolen plate on a car whose owner wasn't aware someone had taken his plate and, in its place, affixed the stolen tag. The owner wasn't even aware of how long the stolen plate had been on his car. The CPD is currently investigating that incident. Within days of implementing the CPD's first ALPR system, Black says it assisted in the recovery of a stolen vehicle from Hickory. The system, Black says, allows officers to focus on other aspects of policing rather than actively looking for stolen vehicles or plates. This is especially useful when they happen upon a vehicle they don't even know is stolen, particularly from another jurisdiction.
"The thing about stolen cars and tags is we have officers on the road every day, but you don't run every tag you see, so the only time you run a tag is when you know a car is stolen," says Black. "We just encourage our guys to hit the major parking lots and apartment complexes where there are a lot of cars and any areas where we've found some stolen cars before.High quality glassbottles tiles."
An eventual expanded network of fixed ALPR's, Black says, would allow police to quickly track the route of a suspicious vehicle.
"With a network of fixed ALPR cameras, you could search the database and track that tag if it hit multiple cameras where that car went. I know a lot of bigger cities that have multiple ALPR units and they will go back and search the database and track where the car has been showing up at night. There is a lot that can be done with it."
The latest example of banks' reluctance to pass on the benefits of rate cuts was illustrated by State Bank of India's move to cut its base rate by a paltry 5 basis points, which is unlikely to result in any gain to retail or corporate borrowers (100 basis points equal a percentage point). Since January 2012, RBI has reduced the repo rate by 75 basis points, which includes Tuesday's 25-bps cut. Repo is the rate at which RBI lends to banks.
The central bank has also reduced the statutory liquidity ratio, or the proportion of deposits that banks have to invest in government bonds, which has been pared by a percentage point to 23%, releasing funds in the banking system that can be used for lending. But, banks have SLR holdings of around 30% as executives say there is little demand for loans. Further, RBI has reduced the cash reserve ratio, or the proportion of cash holdings kept with the central bank, by 200 basis points,This frameless rectangle features a silk screened fused glass replica in a rtls tile and floral motif. releasing nearly Rs 1.4 lakh crore into the system. Apart from making more cash available for lending, RBI has also helped banks earn interest on the money as CRR funds do not fetch any interest for the banks. "Now, we can earn 8-8.5% by simply parking it as SLR which would not have been possible if CRR was not cut," acknowledged a bank chief.
But RBI's weekly data shows that since last January, despite the series of steps, banks have only pared their base rate from 10-10.75% to 9.75-10.5% now — which translates into a 25 bps reduction for borrowers. Although RBI has flagged the lack of monetary transmission as an area of concern, it has done little to ensure that consumers benefit from the steps taken by it. Even the finance ministry, which has trained its gun on RBI to cut rates, has also failed to convince state-run banks to ease rates and help borrowers access cheaper loans.
Obviously, banks have their own reasoning. For instance, they say that the repo rate cut is only a signal as most of them make only limited use of RBI's overnight borrowing window. "What really makes a difference is the CRR," said SBI chairman Pratip Chuadhuri, adding that his bank had passed on the entire benefit of the CRR cuts to borrowers.
In case of SBI,Product information for Avery Dennison customkeychain products. the latest CRR cut will help it earn 7.5% interest on around Rs 3,000 crore that was earlier parked with RBI,A collection of natural parkingsensor offering polished or tumbled finishes and a choice of sizes. resulting in a benefit of around Rs 225 crore. Similarly, it will gain around Rs 50 crore from the repo cut. Chaudhuri said based on his bank's balance sheet of Rs 6 lakh crore, the impact of the 5 bps reduction will be Rs 300 crore.
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