Some 84 million images of cars and their drivers are taken every day.
That means around 1,000 pictures a second are fed into a super computer that can track a car's movement and link it to its owner.
Every time a vehicle passes, a camera takes a picture of the numberplate and the driver's face.
With some 35 million vehicles registered in the UK, on average each car is "captured" almost 1,000 times a year.
Police say their Automatic Number Plate Recognition system is invaluable in preventing and solving serious crime and terror attacks.
This story is from the July 21, 2024 edition of Sunday Express.
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