It says office manager Morten Nystuen at Kongsvinger Toll Station to Østlendingen.
Through Hedmark is at 37 border crossings between Norway and Sweden.
No new technology
So now, four of these video watched by so-called ANPR cameras.
This is the same type of camera NPRA use in connection with traffic controls, for mechanical weeding out vehicles with registered signs of petitions from traffic.
So far, it set up four cameras in Hedmark, from Sugar Road in the south to Røgden the Grue Finnskog in the north.
- We are working to set up more, but it has technology in place, Nystuen said, referring to broadband roast none along the border.
The cameras are based on just the internet in order to communicate with customs officials.
How many cameras – not to mention where they are located – will not Nystuen with.
- What is certain is that every camera will be clearly signposted. Anyone driving past, smugglers law-abiding citizens, will be made aware that they are driving past a camera, said Nystuen.
Shoots only signs
He stressed that it is only the number plate being photographed with the new technique.
– This means that you do not shoot smugglers?
- A camera stops no smugglers. It is still the case that we need to field manually to take them, but the camera is a good tool to scramble when someone responds Nystuen.
The smugglers changing signs
Many of the smugglers Customs stops copying Norwegian license plates – to emerge as “ordinary motorists.”
The procedure is very simple.
Smuggle bands sitting abroad and seeking the Norwegian cars, such as the Finn.no.
When they find a Norwegian car that matches their own – both in terms of color, model and year – ordering the fake versions of the original signs.
- Still a health measure
– Does this new technique some function, when the smugglers probably have switched to new and Customs perhaps unfamiliar signs since the last time they were stopped and registered?
- This is anyway a good preventive measure to reduce contraband traffic. We have had the first four cameras up in a half weeks now. In Østfold has been a pilot project with the same technology. Where this has worked very well. It is precisely because there have been several major drug seizures with this technique, it is now being developed in Hedmark, answer Nystuen.
The smugglers move north
So far, no customs agents in Hedmark taken some as a result of the new cameras.
– Do you see any pattern in contraband traffic, so that you strategically know how you can maximize your control pressure to stop most of the illicit traffic
- Control pressure is the greater, the farther south you go. It’s no secret. Southern European traffic is mostly over Svinesund. So it decreases the farther north you get. After the cameras come out, we just have to wait and see what happens, but we can not ignore the fact that smuggling will only spread farther and farther north, he said.
More cameras
- It came to the Hedmark that control activities were intensified at Svinesund, he adds.
– If this proves to be a success in Hedmark, it will be necessary to expand camera surveillance further?
- It may be that the idea is to continue as far north you get in the country, answering office manager.
He stressed that all pictures taken will be deleted within one hour, if the customs officers did not find anything suspicious related to signs.
- This is the technology we have adopted to stop the organized smuggling of Norway, not “holiday bottle” to people, turn Nystuen firm.
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