ANPR Incident Automation
Every day, around 60 million ANPR reads are generated across the UK, identifying everything from minor traffic offences through to high-risk targets, stolen vehicles, and wanted persons. Managing and responding to this volume of intelligence efficiently is essential to ensuring that police resources remain focused on the areas of greatest risk and operational importance.
NEC Robotic Process Automation (RPA) connects ANPR systems directly with our integrated control room solution, ControlWorks, creating a seamless flow of information between detection and response. When a vehicle of interest is identified, incidents are automatically generated without the need for manual rekeying, copying, or pasting of data. This not only reduces administrative burden and the potential for human error but also accelerates the speed at which intelligence can be acted upon.
By automating routine processes and improving the flow of critical information, police control rooms can prioritise high-risk road users more effectively, enhance situational awareness, and support faster decision-making. The result is a more efficient use of resources, improved operational effectiveness, and a greater impact on public safety.
Key Features
Our ANPR automation solution is designed to streamline operational workflows, reduce manual intervention, and improve response times. By integrating ANPR data directly with control room systems, it enables the automatic creation of incidents, enhances situational awareness, and ensures critical intelligence is acted upon quickly and consistently. The result is greater efficiency, improved resource allocation, and better support for frontline policing operations.
Creates an incident in ControlWorks as soon as an ANPR alert is triggered.
Automated incident creation, built for control rooms
With high ANPR alert volumes, police forces are unable to respond to every notification. Control rooms must focus on the most serious incidents, based on intelligence, risk and operational priorities. In a busy control room, alerts can be missed or response delayed.
NEC Automate ANPR:
- Automatically creates a control room incident from ANPR alerts
- Transfers data accurately without manual intervention
- Automatically searches supporting systems, such as the force’s Records Management System
- Presents consistent, reliable information to control room operators
The result is timely and consistent dispatcher response to high-risk vehicles, reducing response times and mitigating the risk of missed detections.
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