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Exclusive: Edmonston police have special, untraceable license plates
Exclusive: Edmonston police have special, untraceable license platesBy Ari Ashe | @ariasheWTOP April 20, 2015 5:08 am
EDMONSTON, Md. — Police departments across Maryland use untraceable license plates for safety, but a WTOP Ticketbuster investigation has uncovered questions about the use of these license plates in one town.
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These license plates often are given to undercover officers involved in these investigations or other high-profile people who are at a safety risk based on their work.
Confidential tags cannot be traced back to any specific person or organization if a criminal has a source run the plates through conventional databases.
“It’s not uncommon for these people to check the license plates of all their members to see if they have any cops in their ranks, specifically from our narcotics unit. It’s also not uncommon for people to walk past police stations, write down license plates and check them against those in their organization. We sometimes swap confidential tags on our undercovers several times,” says one source.
EDMONSTON, Md. — Police departments across Maryland use untraceable license plates for safety, but a WTOP Ticketbuster investigation has uncovered questions about the use of these license plates in one town.
....
These license plates often are given to undercover officers involved in these investigations or other high-profile people who are at a safety risk based on their work.
Confidential tags cannot be traced back to any specific person or organization if a criminal has a source run the plates through conventional databases.
“It’s not uncommon for these people to check the license plates of all their members to see if they have any cops in their ranks, specifically from our narcotics unit. It’s also not uncommon for people to walk past police stations, write down license plates and check them against those in their organization. We sometimes swap confidential tags on our undercovers several times,” says one source.
