Local councils have for many years taken responsibility for policing the Parking bays and some have taken steps to outsource their parking enforcement to private companies, raising ethical questions about enforcement programs and wardens working on bonus schemes but these wardens have still had to deal with face to face confrontations and some unreasonable behaviour by irresponsible motorists.

The provisions of the Traffic Management Act 2004 now allow local authorities to deal with many of these issues by CCTV, removing the pavement conflict and allowing councils to issue penalty charge notices to registered owners of vehicles, without placing a ticket on the windscreen as before. Balancing the need to keep busy routes clear and enforcing the law, whilst not seeming to be heavy handed, councils can use both static and mobile camera systems to issue Parking fines.

Using ANPR camera technology, Advanced Camera Solutions Ltd is able to provide councils with the technology necessary to detect and deal with parking and other decriminalised civil enforcement offences in an efficient and cost effective manner.  The new ANPR technology, Autofocus, has allowed a system to be designed offering the highest known accuracy due to several unique technologies and specific algorithms. This has allowed the plate to be identified in, infrared, B&W or white light conditions. All EU plates including non-reflective and red characters and numbers ensuring enforcement is carried out in an unbiased manner.

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