Rugby's new ANPR team set up in March this year has made at least 15 arrests for various offences in the first five weeks of operation PS Kate Jackson said ""The ANPR equipment is fitted in a marked police car and works by automatically reading the number plates of passing vehicles and checking them against a database. The database includes the details of vehicles associated with crime and the vehicle's computer will sense this and alert the officers who will then stop and search the vehicle if they have sufficient grounds or do further checks on the vehicle. If the driver of the vehicle does not have insurance or a valid drivers licence, police can seize the vehicle. It can also spot stolen number plates and stolen vehicles as well as driving licence offences and we can use it to target suspect vehicles.” The information gathered by ANPR is shared with other forces. The new police ANPR Team is working alongside the DVLA to spot vehicles that have no tax. Officers out on patrol have also been asked to alert us if they spot a vehicle which is either untaxed or displaying out of date tax parked on the road or any other public place. We can go out to the location of the vehicle and recover untaxed vehicles for the DVLA. The DVLA operative is authorised to recover untaxed vehicles from the Road if the tax is expired by 28 days or more.