{"id":391043,"date":"2026-01-26T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:06:08","slug":"west-northamptonshire-council-to-use-ai-for-fly-tipping-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391043\/","title":{"rendered":"West Northamptonshire Council to use AI for fly-tipping purge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Fly-tipping is a serious environmental crime that damages our communities, harms wildlife and costs taxpayers thousands to clean up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Monitored by trained operatives, the AI technology could record footage from all angles and detect offences as they happened, according to the Reform UK-led authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also included automatic number plate recognition software, allowing officers to identify suspected offenders more quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A similar initiative in Dartford, Kent had led to significant reductions in fly-tipping, the council claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It encouraged people to report incidents via its website or smart phone app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;Fly-tipping is a serious environmental crime that damages our communities, harms wildlife and costs taxpayers thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-391043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}