Sioux City Police Department invests in license plate reading cameras
They are used in high-traffic areas to read license plates of cars to generate leads, find missing persons, and find crime suspects. Sioux City currently has eight Flock cameras, with four more going through the permitting process. They also have access to over 22,000 cameras across the country in the LPR network.
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'A camera for one, in a way, is a camera for all,' police captain Ryan Bertrand said. 'We're able to share our cameras that we have in Sioux City, we can also have other law enforcement agencies that are also part of the LPR network share their cameras with us. So in effect, what that does is gives us the bang for the buck.'
All the Flock cameras are solar-powered. Of the eight cameras, three are stationary and five can be moved to different locations.
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