During the day this Friday, the Undersecretary for Crime Prevention, Eduardo Vergara, assured that together with the Carabineros and the PDI they are evaluating the application of a third patent plate as a control system to prevent the increasingly common cloning of these badges.
Although the control method is not yet clear, the novelty of the initiative is that a sticker with a QR code would be added to the front and rear plates, which would have information about the vehicle and would be attached to a place that is difficult to access, to thus avoiding its adulteration or commercialization.
“It would be an element that would be embedded in the vehicle to prevent it from being manipulated, but it means a third element, it is not a third license plate, but it is called a license plate because it would be a mirror of the license plate that would be located in another instead of the vehicle and with another type of technology” indicated Vergara regarding the application of this new mechanism.
On the other hand, the undersecretary emphasized that the purpose of this idea is to provide the police with new technology “that can determine when there is an adulteration of the VIN number, but clearly this has proven to be insufficient.” He also assured that other countries They are already advanced in these matters, since they would use “chips that are installed in vehicles and also digital forms of detection that are much more difficult to alter.”
It is important to mention that this information was given at a time when the Government of President Gabriel Boric together with the Ministry of Transportation has sought to implement new security methods, such as setting up specific places for route controls.
