Genetec Inc. announced that the Fort Lee, New Jersey Police Department has modernized its automatic license plate recognition technology (ALPR) with Genetec AutoVu Cloudrunner vehicle-centric investigative system.

The Borough of Fort Lee is connected to Manhattan, N.Y., via the George Washington Bridge. Its proximity to the major city brings traffic congestion and some transient crime to the area. Its legacy ALPR system generated just a list of plates and vehicles, and teams would then manually sort and narrow the data to find the vehicle in question. The P.D. looked to minimize that investigative time to find suspects and close cases faster with better access to vehicle information.