Uninsured and Nuisance Vehicles
On Monday 30 March 2009, Assistant Chief Constable Alastair Finlay, Criminal Justice Minister Paul Goggins and Environment Minister Sammy Wilson announced new legislation, which gives Police the power to seize uninsured vehicles and vehicles causing alarm, distress or annoyance.
These measures will target uninsured drivers as well as people who are more likely to carry out other motoring offences and criminals engaged in illegal activity.
We actively target those drivers who our intelligence indicates may be driving whilst uninsured, which resulted in over 4,000 detections for driving with no insurance during 2008.
We have also expanded our use of the Motor Insurers Database to include deployment through our Automatic Number Plate Reading (ANPR) technology, which is currently in use across Northern Ireland.
This technology immediately alerts police officers in vehicles equipped with ANPR cameras, when the registration plate of a suspected uninsured vehicle is detected.
Our message is clear. Whether using these vehicles on or off-road, you will be detected, the vehicle will be seized on the spot and you will face the full rigour of the law.
