In line with the City of North Miami Beach’s (“City”) Strategic Plan mission of providing excellent municipal services and being beautiful, safe and livable community in South Florida, the City requires the purchase and installation of automated license plate readers (“ALPR”).
In June 2017, the North Miami Beach Police Department implemented a mobile license plate reader that has proven to be successful crime fighting tool. This mobile license plate reader has assisted our police officers in affecting several arrests and recovery of stolen property and solving crimes.
Building upon the success of the mobile license plate reader, the North Miami Beach Police Department intends to install fixed license plate readers at four (4) major roadways, with cameras at each location. These license plate readers will be able to read motor vehicle tags 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Automated license plate readers (ALPR) are computer- controlled camera systems which automatically capture an image of the vehicle’s license plate, along with the date,time, and location information, transform that image into alphanumeric characters using optical character recognition or similar software, compare the plate number acquired to one or more databases of vehicles of interest to law enforcement and other agencies that would range from vehicles or drivers involved in felonies to traffic related offenses.
The information can be used to find out where the vehicle has been, determine if the vehicle may have been near a crime scene, and can additionally identify traffic patterns. The system will also alert if the vehicle has been entered into FCIC / NCIC vehicle as stolen or abandoned, if the registered owner has an outstanding warrant, if the registered owner currently has a suspended driver’s license and could include information about minor traffic infractions such as tag expiration. Historical ALPR data generates investigative leads and solve crimes.