KENTWOOD, MI – The city of Kentwood is installing automatic license plate readers on all of its police patrol vehicles as a new tool to help fight crime.
Starting this summer, the plate readers will be installed on every Kentwood Police Department patrol car to scan the plates of passing cars. Police Chief Bryan Litwin said the system will help officers locate stolen vehicles, vehicles involved in crimes and more.
“Let’s say we have a robbery in our city, and maybe we got a partial license plate from somebody,” he said. “We could go back into this system and run that partial license plate and see if any of our patrol cars have passed that vehicle that met that make and model.”…