ALPR / ANPR database

A pole-mounted automated licence-plate-reader (ALPR) camera — illustrative of the technology. Photo: Tony Webster / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) — source.

The automatic licence-plate recognition (ALPR / ANPR) database is one of the oldest confirmed pieces of surveillance infrastructure in the EPS record. Its origin isn't documented through a procurement notice. It surfaced through a scandal.

Details

Field	Value
Status	Confirmed (historic)
Year(s)	2004-present
Cost (CAD)	Modern cost undocumented (2004-era origin)
Vendor	Unknown
Source	wikipedia-diotte-alpr-database
This one is confirmed by hard reporting, not inference. In 2004 a "high-risk driver" ALPR database was turned on a city councillor, Kerry Diotte. The fallout was heavy: the police chief was fired and a $1.75M lawsuit followed. Two decades on, it shows EPS has run licence-plate recognition capability that long.

The modern cost of the system stays undisclosed. We don't invent numbers, so it enters the black-box reconstruction at $0 by choice, the real figure unknown rather than actually zero. That makes ALPR a clean FOIP target, since a direct records request could surface both current cost and scope.

Source

See the source clipping: wikipedia-diotte-alpr-database.