On August 14, 2020, a member of the South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was on patrol using an Automated Licence Plate Recognition (ALPR) equipped cruiser.

The ALPR system is a sophisticated licence plate scanning tool that uses Infra-Red illumination to capture an image of both the front and back of a vehicle. The system is capable of scanning thousands of licence plates per hour, checking them in real time against the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) database.

The system can identify stolen plates, expired plates, plates that are associated to suspended and unlicensed drivers, wanted persons and those connected to Amber alerts can be quickly identified.

At 2:01 p.m. on August 14, 2020, the ALPR system alerted to a vehicle on Highway 9 in Greenock Township. The vehicle was stopped and a 53-year-old Ajax resident was charged with driving while under suspension drive with no insurance.

source: media release, South Bruce OPP