New Patrol Car

[Tom]

Mabye you guys have seen this but I saw it for the first time last night at the office. It was a patrol car that was mounted with three overhead cameras and automatically performed license plates checks on cars as you drove past them. I gotta admit it was pretty cool.

Tom

[schutzpolizei]

Serious? Wow, I want one.

[TheForceCHP]

try to find more info. on it! i can't wait to see it

[redhead]

Pics?

Come on Tom, Motors always have a camera on them ;)

[carcop]

Had it in our area. Won't get into to much detail here but, it works well. The only bad thing is that if your trying to go 10-10 and in a high car theft area ..... you may not get home too quickly:lol:

[SB 405]

This thing was all over the news here about a month ago. As I remember it they had the camera mounted on an LAPD unit with a news camera person in the back seat filming the Officers on patrol and explaining how it worked.

[14596]

was it being used for VSET Tom? We have had it here in Yuba for our deployments!

[Q]

Hi there, new guy here. Here's a shot I took of an LASD License Plate Recognition vehicle at last year's COPS West show.

http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL15/631045/2658313/118833193.jpg

[SB 405]

And I suppose these little gems run something like $3,000 a copy which means most departments will only be able to afford purchasing one?

[FuelInjection09]

Mabye you guys have seen this but I saw it for the first time last night at the office. It was a patrol car that was mounted with three overhead cameras and automatically performed license plates checks on cars as you drove past them. I gotta admit it was pretty cool.

Tom

Wow, that's nuts.

[dw]

Pics?

Come on Tom, Motors always have a camera on them ;)

They're only allowed to take pictures of themselves, their motorcycles, or with permission, another motor! :rolleyes:

;)

[dw]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition

[CHP Explorer]

We have them down here in san diego at the scales currenly on the I-5 and there going to put one on the I-15.

[NWTSCL]

This kind of reminds me of the CHP car that I saw with a heads-up display and operates off voice commands.

[CaliforniaHighwayPatrol]

I actually saw a CHP car pulling someone over on the 5 south near Burbank and he had the camera on the car by his lights. He also had LED lights, rather then the normal ones. I know it was a CHP car because I saw the emblems on the car.

[RC5150]

I ve been driving one of these camra cars for the past two weeks.

[16528]

I ve been driving one of these camra cars for the past two weeks.

So our Dept. has them???

PICS PLEASE...

[SB 405]

I ve been driving one of these camra cars for the past two weeks.As a test or did the department purchase it?

[RC5150]

For right now I m told that each division is going to have one and then expand from there. Right now our area office has the car for a month, so they trained a few of us and we were told to have it on the road 24/7. I was told third hand that they wanted a few in every area, but I know that just the camra system cost around $40k so I don't think it will expand that far.

[RC5150]

I don't have any pics right now, but it looks very much like the S.O. car. Its a normal overhead light bar with multiple camaras around the size of a small coffee can. Most people wouldn't notice the difference as the car drove down the road.

[16528]

just the camera system cost around $40k

So if Motor Transport pairs this up with Visteon, we could have a 100k patrol car?????

[carcop]

So if Motor Transport pairs this up with Visteon we could have a 100k patrol car?????

Sweet! with the new rims we have all we need now is some 16" woofers and we'll be styling.

I don't mind the hight tech equip but hey... let's not forget about the car.

[TheForceCHP]

Baldwin Park Police have at least one car. stopped by the CHP station and then went over to Panda Express and happened to see it. i don't consider them a big police department(my opinion) so it surprised me to see it on one their vehicles

[bcjack]

Would anyone really want to drive a $100k patrol car???? Just don't wreck it...eh!:badgrin:

[dw]

For right now I m told that each division is going to have one and then expand from there. Right now our area office has the car for a month, so they trained a few of us and we were told to have it on the road 24/7. I was told third hand that they wanted a few in every area, but I know that just the camra system cost around $40k so I don't think it will expand that far.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some grant funding from the feds and/or insurance companies. I have no statistical information, but it wouldn't take too many found vehicles to pay for the system... Project a ten year service life and it won't cost much at all.

[RC5150]

I was told that the camera system is not compatable with the vistion system. So you could have a camera car with the electronic citation device but these two systems are not compatable with vistion. We have all three in our office and not one car has two of these sytems in it.