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Number Plate crackdown
SimonHarwood:
I had an email from the Neighbourhood Watch today....
--- Quote ---Crackdown on registration number plates
Motorists with misrepresented or indistinct registration number plates
are being warned to change them or face the penalty.
Officers from Leicestershire Constabulary's Automatic Number Plate
Recognition (ANPR) Unit and Road Policing Unit are taking part in a
week-long national crackdown on registration plates from Monday January
28.
Officers will be stopping vehicles displaying number plates that are
damaged and therefore difficult to read, as well as plates that have
been deliberately altered to read something different. This includes
plates where the font has been altered, the letters moved closer
together or the screw heads re-positioned so that the plate reads
differently.
Sergeant Simon Greensmith from Leicestershire Constabulary's ANPR Unit
said: "Motorists may not realise that they are committing an offence by
deliberately altering their number plates or displaying a broken or
obscured plate. However it has a big impact not only on the ability of
officers to read their number plate, but also for other members of the
public. This could be particularly important if the vehicle is ever
stolen or if it is involved in a collision.
"Indistinct or misrepresented number plates are also being actively used
by some criminals to avoid our ANPR camera systems.
"Leicestershire Constabulary is urging any motorist with an illegal
number plate to rectify it immediately or face the penalty when they are
stopped by officers. From Monday we will be carrying out stop checks
across the city and county. Depending on the offence officers can issue
a vehicle defect rectification notice, a £30 fixed penalty notice and
apply to DVLA to have the number plate withdrawn from use. This could be
an expensive penalty for a motorist who has paid a large sum of money
for a specific registration plate.
"If a motorist is believed to be fraudulently using a registration plate
or is displaying a false plate they can go to court and face up to two
years in prison and a discretionary disqualification."
The following restrictions apply to registration plates:
All number plates from September 1, 2001 must display the new mandatory
font and comply with British standards in relation to size, font and
background.
Black number plates with silver or white numbers or letters may only be
displayed on vehicles manufactured or registered before January 1, 1973.
Self adhesive number plates are illegal (i.e. plates stuck on the bonnet
or sticker style plates.)
Number plates where screw heads are positioned to change the appearance
of a letter or number are illegal.
Single line number plates on motorcycles are illegal.
Foreign style, British number plates are illegal.
If a number plate is cracked or broken and the damage makes the number
difficult to read then an offence is committed.
For more information go to www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles
Issued on 23/01/08 at 11:31
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This has been a long time coming. It was promised when the new number plate system came in.
Evilgoat:
Big brother cant read your plates... horsepoo to the 'For the public' reasoning.
Given Genesis cant read plates in ideal conditions its almost comical.
Yoshi:
--- Quote from: SimonHarwood on January 24, 2008, 18:13:55 ---I had an email from the Neighbourhood Watch today....
--- Quote ---Crackdown on registration number plates
Motorists with misrepresented or indistinct registration number plates
are being warned to change them or face the penalty.
Officers from Leicestershire Constabulary's Automatic Number Plate
Recognition (ANPR) Unit and Road Policing Unit are taking part in a
week-long national crackdown on registration plates from Monday January
28.
Officers will be stopping vehicles displaying number plates that are
damaged and therefore difficult to read, as well as plates that have
been deliberately altered to read something different. This includes
plates where the font has been altered, the letters moved closer
together or the screw heads re-positioned so that the plate reads
differently.
Sergeant Simon Greensmith from Leicestershire Constabulary's ANPR Unit
said: "Motorists may not realise that they are committing an offence by
deliberately altering their number plates or displaying a broken or
obscured plate. However it has a big impact not only on the ability of
officers to read their number plate, but also for other members of the
public. This could be particularly important if the vehicle is ever
stolen or if it is involved in a collision.
"Indistinct or misrepresented number plates are also being actively used
by some criminals to avoid our ANPR camera systems.
"Leicestershire Constabulary is urging any motorist with an illegal
number plate to rectify it immediately or face the penalty when they are
stopped by officers. From Monday we will be carrying out stop checks
across the city and county. Depending on the offence officers can issue
a vehicle defect rectification notice, a £30 fixed penalty notice and
apply to DVLA to have the number plate withdrawn from use. This could be
an expensive penalty for a motorist who has paid a large sum of money
for a specific registration plate.
"If a motorist is believed to be fraudulently using a registration plate
or is displaying a false plate they can go to court and face up to two
years in prison and a discretionary disqualification."
The following restrictions apply to registration plates:
All number plates from September 1, 2001 must display the new mandatory
font and comply with British standards in relation to size, font and
background.
Black number plates with silver or white numbers or letters may only be
displayed on vehicles manufactured or registered before January 1, 1973.
Self adhesive number plates are illegal (i.e. plates stuck on the bonnet
or sticker style plates.)
Number plates where screw heads are positioned to change the appearance
of a letter or number are illegal.
Single line number plates on motorcycles are illegal.
Foreign style, British number plates are illegal.
If a number plate is cracked or broken and the damage makes the number
difficult to read then an offence is committed.
For more information go to www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles
Issued on 23/01/08 at 11:31
--- End quote ---
This has been a long time coming. It was promised when the new number plate system came in.
--- End quote ---
I wish they would get it right!!! Its vehicles manufactured before 1st January and first registered before 13th (or somewhere round that date) January 1973. I went through this when i tried to get black and white plates made for my old tax exempt motor.
Range Rover Blues:
Even when you have a tax exempt logbook some places won't supply them.
Arse/elbow, they need clearly labelling.
davidlandy:
great that they are cracking down on these no. plates
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