New Scanners To Help Indiana State Police Find Unlicensed Drivers
INDIANAPOLIS (CBS) -- Indiana State Police are using new technology to catch drivers without valid licenses.
As WBBM Newsradio's Regine Schlesinger reports, state police are outfitting some of their patrol cars with a new device that is connected to the Motor Vehicles Database.
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The scanner, mounted on the trunk of the police car, reads the license plate of a car and checks it against the database, to determine whether the registered owner has a valid license.
Eventually, police say the system also will be used to identify those with expired plates.
In the Northwest Indiana, the state police station in Lowell will be getting the new scanners, purchased with federal and state grants.
The scanners cost about $22,000 apiece.
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