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ANPR is just any camera with OCR targeted at reg plates.

Police ANPR queries the Law Enforcement Data System, which contains data such as the car history, owner details, stolen cars, and persons of interest.

Commercial ANPR queries the organisation’s proprietary database and also the publicly available DVLA data to gather the name and address of the owner.

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