Marshall Security have got your number (if you’re a bad guy)

Technology has come a long way.

These days we can scan things with our phones, download whatever we want to watch (legally of course) and have access to information at the touch of a button wherever we are.

Every day new ideas are thought of, and new solutions invented.

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Marshall Security is proud to be pioneering one such solution at the moment, cameras with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR).

Their first cameras that included this new technology went up in May of this year in Umhlanga, where the project was being piloted.

The results were immediately exciting.

When you make nine arrests while in the testing phase alone, you know that you have a game changer on your hands.

The move shifts Marshall Security from a powerful reactive security company into a proactive force, that are in a way, able to see the future.

How does it work?

As a vehicle drives past one of their designated cameras, an image is captured and sent directly to their Emergency Contact Centre.

There the image is analysed and the number plate automatically run through both Marshall Security’s own database of suspicious vehicles and the SAPS Sought Vehicle Database.

Number plates that match are immediately flagged (the SAPS are notified) and a team is dispatched to the last known location of the car.

The truly remarkable part is the length of time this whole process takes. Seconds.

So, from a suspicious vehicle driving past one of their camera’s, to a Marshall Security team hurtling in their direction, an average person going about their day would barely have had enough time to order pizza.

Plus, bonus for that person, they will remain happy and unaware that a crime was possibly prevented before it even happened.

If you are interested in finding out more about Marshall Security and their new ANPR project and how it can be rolled out in your area, call them on their ‘In Case Of Anything’ number 086 162 7732.