MACOMB (WGEM) - Half a dozen Flock license plate reader (LPR’s) cameras are now active in and around Macomb with a seventh on the way.

Police Chief Jeff Hamer said the cameras only track data and don’t record any driving infractions.

“What we do use is hot lists, so if a stolen vehicle makes it to a hot list and then that vehicle passes in front of, lets say our LPR’s, we would get a ‘ping,’ if you will, on that hot list saying there’s a stolen vehicle in our community,” Hamer said.

Additionally, the cameras aren’t pointed at private property.

For the last six years, Hamer said Macomb Police Department has used a mobile LPR on a squad car.

Police can search data from up to 30 days of a car being recorded. Hamer called the cameras a “force multiplier” for law enforcement.

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