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<p>Highways England have installed and operate automatic number plate recognition
(ANPR) cameras across 500 sites covering the majority of the motorway and trunk road
network. These are used for data gathering and provision of information, such as journey
times and are not used for enforcement purposes.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, there
are a small number of ANPR cameras at the Dartford Crossing to support Dartford free
flow charging and 22 sites at various locations operated by the Driver and Vehicle
Standards Agency to detect offences, including unlicensed operators, untested vehicles
and at some locations overloaded vehicles.</p><p> </p><p>A private sector company,
Trafficmaster, operates their own ANPR cameras to capture traffic flow information
to provide traffic services for travellers.</p><p> </p>
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