DAYTONA BEACH -- Police in Daytona Beach have new, high-tech tools to catch the bad guys, including a special camera and system that reads 15,000 license plates every hour, whether the officers' squad car was moving or stationary.
Police have been putting the technology to good use during this year's Bike Week, while thousands of vehicles and motorcycles were in town.
As the high-tech eye reads the license plate, the system enters it into a data bank.
If an alert comes up, police pull the car over and investigate.
Police said they were not looking for drivers with expired tags or suspended car insurance.
"What it's looking for is stolen vehicles, vehicles we have alerts on -- for example, on amber alerts -- homicide vehicle from a homicide scene, or a subject is wanted, or an interest in capture," said Officer Robert Ransom.
Police said the camera could read license plates at a higher rate than any human could.
Two cameras were mounted on two cars Tuesday. Police said the cost of the system on those cars was about $42,000, and was paid for by drug seizures.
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