"michael adams" wrote in message
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"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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On 06/06/2018 20:27, michael adams wrote:
"Cynic" wrote in message
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We've got simple cctv cameras with IR illuminator around the lens up at
the
local hall. Lately there's been a problem with boy racers gathering
after dark
in the car park and antisocial behaviour ensues.
The cars can be viewed but reflective number plates are just a washout
presumably
caused by the direct reflection of the IR. Has anyone had success in
capturing
readable images of number plates after dark using economic cameras? I'm
guessing
the use of a non illuminated camera with a separate illuminator from an
angled location
might solve the reflection washout of the image but the hall doesn't
want to spend
funds without being sure it will work.

IANAL but if the police are unwilling to take action on the basis of any
timed CCTV
footage you can provide them with already - basically by lying in wait
and catching
them in the act - then I doubt your being able to record the number
plates would make
any difference.

One report, of anti-social use of a motor vehicle (with number) can
result in the police issuing the owner with a warning. A second report
within a period can result in the vehicle being seized.

They are far more likely to do something if you can give the number.

As a matter of interest, how do they guard against against malicious
reports ?

They don’t have to with video footage.

In our case they show up at the alleged criminal's place
and ask them for their version of the story. Just happened
to a mate of mine. His wife was driving his ute which was
loaded with big stuff so she couldn’t see what cars were
behind her. Someone told the cops that that ute run them
off the road when they tried to overtake. When the cops
showed up to get his version of the story, he said that
he didn’t know anything about it, because he didn’t
realise that his wife was the one driving when it
happened because he wasn’t in the ute at the time.

The cops have decided to do nothing about
it, without even bothering to tell him that.

They are not going to "waste" resources on lying in wait for relatively
minor anti-social behaviour.

Relatively minor anti-social behaviour which nevertheless as you've just
explained above, can apprently result in a vehicle being seized, on tne
second occasion of something being reported by a member of the public.

Not possible here.