Behind the tape
Expert advice to get the details right in your crime fiction from serving police officer Lisa Cutts
Lisa Cutts
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Q
How would the police go about tracing a partial number plate – say there’s a couple of numbers or letters missing? In my story it’s important that the police can trace a number plate to a fifty-mile (or so) radius of a particular town and I’m not sure how many cars within that radius would have that number plate. I would like them to narrow it down to half a dozen or so.