# Flock Safety License Plate Reader Overview
# Grafton Police Department Wisconsin — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQiRdab3gyM

so the flock system is a force
multiplier
for the police department obviously we
can't be everywhere
at every time to capture every single
license plate or
capture every single stolen vehicle or
anything that comes through our area
a lot of times we're not even aware that
there's a stolen vehicle in our area
so what this camera system does is it
allows us
to be able to identify stolen vehicles
stolen plates missing persons wanted
persons
so the system's got a very rigorous
audit
system attached with it our officers
won't be able to go in and just
randomly search for vehicles they have
to have a reason
to go in and search for vehicles flock
system only holds the
data in there for 30 days so
that helps with the privacy issues as
well
it's again it's a vehicle recognition
system
and a license plate recognition system
it's not a people
recognition system it doesn't use facial
technology
or facial recognition technology it's
important because we have
a major retail corridor along us-43 and
us-43 is also a major drug highway
between chicago and green bay
so we have a lot of people traversing
our area that
use grafton as a stopping point
they'll usually typically come up here
in stolen vehicles they'll come up here
in a vehicle with a stolen plate
and oftentimes these are wanted folks
that are
traveling through our area prior to
these cameras they could do that
undetected
now having this ability gives us that
ability to identify these folks and give
us good solid leads on vehicles
even if we don't have a plate we can
enter that vehicle information in there
and if the
vehicle does have a plate attached to it
we're able to identify that plate
uh and associate it with that vehicle
for future investigation
the thing about these cameras and
there's a lot of misconceptions about
these cameras out there and there's a
lot of misinformation about these
cameras
these cameras do not capture anything
that a normal person walking down the
street wouldn't observe
normally in fact it captures a lot less
because walking down the street a person
can actually see who's driving the
vehicle
we can't all we can do is identify the
vehicle type the vehicle color the
vehicle make
and the identifies the license plate
we're going to utilize the flax system
to assist us with
amber alerts when we have a child that
has
been abducted it'll help us locate a
vehicle that was involved in the
abduction of that child
so we can safely recover that child and
bring them home
we also use it during the course of your
silver alerts
in which individuals are suffering from
alzheimer's
or dementia to gain access to a vehicle
and
are now reported as missing that we can
reunite them with their families we will
also use it during the course of
a green alert when we have veterans that
are suffering from a mental health
crisis that we can get them the
appropriate resources that they need to
reunite them with their families
it also will give us the ability to
locate vehicles
wanted in violent crimes such as armed
robberies carjackings bank robberies
as well as gives us the ability to
locate individuals that are wanted by
other agencies
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