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29/06/2009
Gardaí Scanners To Detect Road Tax Scammers
Gardaí have introduced a new technology in their fight against motorists driving without tax or insurance to aid detection.
Specialist scanners will be installed in garda patrol cars which will automatically read registration plates and cross reference their tax and insurance details. The computer system will then be able to alert the patrol unit if the car is not taxed or insured.
Gardai make the checks manually by inputting registrations numbers into the patrol cars onboard computers, or checking the windscreen discs to see if the vehicle was legal. However, some motorists were able to fraudulently obtain tax discs by cancelling direct debits after receiving their discs.
The new system is being fitted to over 100 garda cars during the next two months. Assistant Garda Commissioner Eddie Rock said the computers in patrol cars would cross-reference numbers against a list provided by insurance companies.
Assistant Commissioner Rock said: "We will now be able to get around the issue of people having a false tax disc or insurance disc. If you are not insured you will be caught.
"We will be getting a database from the Irish Insurance Federation on a daily basis, uploading it on to a system within 53 centres throughout the country."
(DW/JM)
Specialist scanners will be installed in garda patrol cars which will automatically read registration plates and cross reference their tax and insurance details. The computer system will then be able to alert the patrol unit if the car is not taxed or insured.
Gardai make the checks manually by inputting registrations numbers into the patrol cars onboard computers, or checking the windscreen discs to see if the vehicle was legal. However, some motorists were able to fraudulently obtain tax discs by cancelling direct debits after receiving their discs.
The new system is being fitted to over 100 garda cars during the next two months. Assistant Garda Commissioner Eddie Rock said the computers in patrol cars would cross-reference numbers against a list provided by insurance companies.
Assistant Commissioner Rock said: "We will now be able to get around the issue of people having a false tax disc or insurance disc. If you are not insured you will be caught.
"We will be getting a database from the Irish Insurance Federation on a daily basis, uploading it on to a system within 53 centres throughout the country."
(DW/JM)
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