Police use of number-plate spotting systems has skyrocketed to nearly 700,000 times a year - or almost 2000 times every day.

Police use of number plate-spotting systems has skyrocketed to nearly 700,000 times a year – or almost 2000 times every day. Two years ago, the systems were used a third of that amount.

The number of searches by officers on automated number plate recognition systems rose from 64,000 in 2020 to almost 700,000 four years later.

Police say their rapidly rising use of number plate searching technology is mostly because more officers are doing it, and are more aware of being able to use it. The number of searches by ...