During Wednesday’s Public Safety Committee meeting, Anchorage Police Department Chief Michael Kerle said he wanted to see if the Assembly had an appetite for bringing license plate readers to Anchorage.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Anchorage Police Department is exploring the possibility of bringing in a mass surveillance system to monitor crime throughout the municipality.
During Wednesday’s Public Safety Committee meeting, APD Chief Michael Kerle said he wanted to see if the Assembly had any interest in bringing license plate readers to Anchorage. The high-speed, automated camera systems compile information related to the movement of license plates over time. He said the system can be useful in helping officers police crimes like stolen cars and human trafficking, along with responding to Amber and Silver alerts.
“It lists the geographical data, which license plate reader read the data, and [a] date and time stamp and then it puts it into a database and if you need to go back and refer to that, you could,” said Kerle, who added other police departments hold onto most data for about 30 days.
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