Police photographs license plates of cars. Even the Prime Minister did not know about this, now PPA has begun to check
On Thursday, the General Director of the Police and Border Guard Department (PPA) Egert Belichev initiated an internal audit with the aim of a comprehensive assessment of the use of license plates in the PPA, its legal basis and registration of data on use, writes DELFI.
This week, the eesti EKSPRESS reported that PPA has introduced a national network of recognition chambers of license plates, which monthly records more than 20 million images of license plates of cars.
The government led by Prime Minister Kristen Mikhal (Reform Party) was not aware of the introduction of such a system, and Riigikogu did not give a mandate to create it.
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The PPA CEO emphasized that the “number of recognition of license plates is a necessary and important tool for the police”, but at the same time admitted that “it is obvious that we spoke too little about it (the system) publicly.”
“For us, the trust of the Estonian people in our instruments and principles is important,” Belichev noted.
“Although the police have been using license plates to identify crimes for many years and establishes them together with local governments, we clearly did not talk about it publicly and did not resemble people about this topic. In order to guarantee that the current organization of the police ensures all modern legal norms, as well as make proposals for more accurate regulation of license plates recognition, if necessary, I initiated it, I initiated A comprehensive analysis of the entire topic in PPA « .
According to Belichev, the most important victory of the police from recognizing car numbers is the disclosure of serious crimes in hot pursuit.
The Police and Border Guard Department uses public chambers with license plates recognition technology, which are mainly installed on highways and large transport interchanges. The camera recognizes the license plate of the vehicle and takes its picture. It is stored in anonymous form in the police database. Each data request is recorded, and magazines are preserved even after removing records.
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