AI-Powered Body Cam with 5G & Number Plate Recognition! 🤯 #Shorts

Our Take

Faiz Razak's short is basically a product teaser, not an investigation, but it's a useful glimpse at where ALPR tech is headed: off the pole and onto a person's chest. Once plate-reading and OCR software can be crammed into a body camera with a 5G radio, the distinction between 'fixed infrastructure surveillance' and 'officer discretion' starts to blur. Every patrol becomes a mobile scanning point, streaming plate hits back to a database in real time, whether or not there's a warrant, a BOLO, or even reasonable suspicion attached to the stop.

That matters because the entire ALPR debate in the U.S. has been fought around fixed cameras — where they're mounted, who owns the data, how long it's retained. Wearable ANPR sidesteps a lot of that conversation by making the camera itself invisible and ambient. There's no pole to notice, no sign to protest, just a cop walking down the street quietly logging every plate in view. We don't have evidence this specific product is deployed in American departments, but the trajectory is obvious: the hardware keeps getting smaller, cheaper, and more networked, and the oversight keeps failing to catch up.

If body-worn plate recognition becomes standard-issue, the same questions we ask about stationary Flock cameras apply with less transparency: who's watching, how long is it kept, and can you even tell it's happening. Check our camera map to see what's already tracking your plates, and hit take action if you want to push back before wearable ANPR becomes the next normal.