Improved Safety At Manchester Airport?

The news has just flown my way that Manchester Airport is getting ready to introduce new cameras which will be able to automatically record up to 600,000 number plates every 24 hours.

Unsurprisingly, the cameras have been introduced due to minority suspect vehicles and are an attempt to create a safer environment. All vehicles entering and leaving the airport will be recorded, meaning that police will be able to track anyone they would like to intercept. Although primarily an anti-terror measure, Greater Manchester Police say that it will be great for checking for ininsured or stolen vehicles as they will be able to check them against information stored on the Police National Computer and the DVLA database.

This all sounds very promising, but anyone who read my blog from yesterday will know that, due to current UK rules, anyone with a foreign number plate has a fair chance of being untraceable! So, it may well create a safer environment to a certain degree but, for the moment, there will continue to be some who manage to slip through the net!

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