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bplusmc
07-20-2008, 08:15 PM
Last Thursday I did a ride-a-long with the local P.D. While at the Bakersfield jail I saw a CHP unit and on 3 corners of the light bar (forward left side, forward and aft right side) there was what looked to be camera's with LED light's encircling it. The case for the camera's were about the size of a soft ball.

Are they camera's and what purpose do they serve?
TX-DPS
07-20-2008, 08:18 PM
Last Thursday I did a ride-a-long with the local P.D. While at the Bakersfield jail I saw a CHP unit and on 3 corners of the light bar (forward left side, forward and aft right side) there was what looked to be camera's with LED light's encircling it. The case for the camera's were about the size of a soft ball.

Are they camera's and what purpose do they serve?

Can't speak for the CHP unit's but we have been using camera's for quite a while down here with the Texas Highway Patrol. We use the Watchguard system.

Protects us, and keeps the violator from saying we did this and that, when we didn't do that.
gabriel
07-20-2008, 08:22 PM
I think what you say may be a plate scanning system. Chippies will chime in shortly, I'm sure. :biggrin:
snowdog
07-20-2008, 08:24 PM
Sounds like a license plate reader.
TheForceCHP
07-20-2008, 08:24 PM
Sounds like a license plate reader.

agreed
10-7
07-20-2008, 08:39 PM
That was supposed to be a well kept secret !:tape:

Actually, they are CO2 exhaust sensors :rolleyes:
bplusmc
07-20-2008, 08:42 PM
That makes sense thinking back on how the camera's where angled. All three where right around 45 degree's.
snowdog
07-20-2008, 08:59 PM
That was supposed to be a well kept secret !:tape:
I miss briefing for 3 years and this is what happens. Nobody forwarded the memo to me.
SLCHP
07-20-2008, 10:39 PM
Secrets in the CHP, thats a good one.....:doh:
Gittinready
07-21-2008, 03:51 AM
Real secret, we rock.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/13/MNJFSO1NM.DTL&type=printable


"The possibilities are endless in terms of what we can do with this," said Sgt. Troy Rivers of the California Highway Patrol, which has put license plate readers on 16 cruisers and four fixed locations in the state, including at a Mexican border crossing. "The only limitations to the technology are the limitations we place on it ourselves."
PapaBear
07-21-2008, 05:57 AM
Similar to these?

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2007/march2007/march2007leb_img_5.jpg
bplusmc
07-21-2008, 09:32 AM
Similar to these?

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2007/march2007/march2007leb_img_5.jpg
Yes, but a different style and they were mounted closer to the egde of the light bar.
PapaBear
07-21-2008, 10:25 AM
Yes, but a different style and they were mounted closer to the egde of the light bar.

They are license plate readers.
Q
08-03-2008, 08:27 PM
These are the new ones:

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL15/631045/17980599/281567514.jpg

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL15/631045/17980599/281567512.jpg

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL15/631045/17980599/281567510.jpg

Here's the older version...
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL15/631045/2658313/118833193.jpg

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL15/631045/2658313/118833181.jpg

And the model I built...
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL15/631045/2658313/235826675.jpg
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL15/631045/2658313/235826666.jpg