Automated License Plate Recognition ALPR Training

8/12/2019 Automated License Plate Recognition ALPR Training

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Automated License Plate Recognition

(ALPR) Training


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Agenda

Introduction-What isALPR?

Officer Responsibilities

How to log on

Begin Shift

End Shift

Troubleshooting

Hands on Training


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Introduction

What is the Automatic License Plate

Recognition System (ALPR)


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What is ALPR?

A computer thatautomatically scans license

plates and compares themto a wanted vehicledatabase

Searches for Stolen

vehicles, Felony vehicles,Lost or Stolen plates andany other manually entered

plates


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What is ALPR? (Cont)

The system incorporates two

cameras, one IR, one Color

into a single housing, two

housings per vehicle Can capture plates in all

weather, oncoming

headlights, glare, bright

sunlight and in darkness

Uses IR and OCR (Optical

Character Recognition)

technology to read plates


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What is ALPR? (Cont)

Officer is notified visuallyand with a audible alarmwhen a match is made

Matches must beconfirmed through CLETS

The Database is NOTliveand matches may not still

be in the system

Visually confirm the platefrom the vehicle, NOTfrom the picture


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ALPR is NOTPERFECT!!! ALPR does NOTread all

plates

Non-reflective plates

Old Blue CA

Extremely Dirty

Mutilated or Obscured Out of state & motorcycle

plates can be read, butaccuracy may be reduced

Plate must be in the field ofview of the camera

ALPR only reads from the IRcamera, not the coloroverview camera

Misreads can and will occur!

VERIFY, VERIFY VERIFY!!!


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Officer Responsibilities

Pursuit Policy

Falls under J4 standard

Officer must notify dispatch

they are in a ALPR vehicle. Officer should request a

marked black & white police

vehicle to respond to take over

the pursuit as soon as

practical ALPR vehicles may be

allowed to continue in a

pursuit or assist in a pursuit

only when approved to do so

by a field supervisor


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Officer Responsibilities Reporting

Officers are required to complete theappropriate paper work for stolenvehicle recoveries.

Officer should forward any F/C to the

requesting Investigator listed on the hitscreen.


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START UP

Make sure that you have a wireless

connection with the network


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START UP

Log onto the MDT

and allow PAGIS to

load completely


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Logging into PAGIS

Enter your login in

lowercase in the Badge

#field

Enter your password in

the Passwordfield

LocationALPR ID

self populating

Hit Log On Button

The Patrol Screen will

now load


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Patrol Screen (Live)

Main screen to

use the PAGIS

system

Buttons

available to

access other

features


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Begin Shift Double click the

Begin Shiftbutton to beginupload of

databases This may take as

long as 5minutes


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Begin Shift (cont.) PAGIS will

display a statusscreen while thebegin shift

process is takingplace.


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Other Features in PAGIS

Manual Plate Check & Entry


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Manual Plate Check & Entry

Allows you to

check for

wantedplates

Allows you to

add wanted

plates todatabases


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Manual Plate

Check(cont)

Enter plate

and hit VLP

button

If plate is not

found and you

want to add to

database Hit Stolen

button


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Adding a Wanted Plate

Add any

additional

information in

narrative box

Hit SAVE


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Other Features in PAGIS

Review Plate Reads


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Review Plate Reads

Summaryscreen forbasic Stats

Tap READSto see allplates read

Select Hits toview all hits

Tap misreadsto viewmisreads

ESC to exit


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ENDSHIFT Should be done at

transportation

Confirm that youare connected tothe server via Wifi

Double tap ENDSHIFT


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Endshift-Downloading Data

Computer willdownload all theplates read to the

server This may take

several minutesdepending on thenumber of platesread


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LOGGING OFF PAGIS


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LOGGING OFF

You MUST log off

PAGIS at EOW

Hit the Log out button

to log off PAGIS

Hit the Exitbutton to

log off the PIPS computer

Turn off the MDT as

normal

YOUR DONE!


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Troubleshooting

If PAGIS doesntautomatically load

This might occurwhen you restartthe computerduring your shift

Double click thePAGIS Icon onthe remotedesktop


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Problems with the system Contact the ALPR trainer for your watch


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Updates and Upgrades

Updates and upgrades will be made to

the system

Wanted vehicle data inputted from RMS

Each Watch will have a system

administrator to assist you with the system

You will be notified of upgrades via email-

Look for them!


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ALPR Demo

demo_PAGIS_LB.wmv


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Questions???

Documents

Automated License Plate Recognition ALPR Training