Police Use iPhone App to Bust Illegal Drivers
@The Mercury
A word to drivers down under: make sure your license and registration are up to date.
Police in Tasmania are using iPhones to snap plates, relay the pics to a database of unregistered vehicles and unlicensed and disqualified drivers via an app developed for the department.
In just 10 days of operation, the app has outed 167 unregistered vehicles and caught 107 disqualified or unregistered drivers, the Mercury reports. Formerly, officers had to radio in the information and wait for a co-worker to check.
Within the first 10 minutes of trying it out, police pulled up alongside a car at a traffic light ran the app and found the car was unregistered. They pulled over the car, found the driver was also without a license and drugs in the car, too.
The app, designed by the Tasmania police department, is also used by motorcycle cops.
Via Mac Daily News
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