It is used to prevent difficulties for a real person who might coincidentally have the same license plate number as one appearing in a movie.
One of the assistants wrote down most of the license plate number, and the suspects were later arrested, charged, and sentenced.
The license plate number was not transmitted on the police radio until two hours later.
The attendant gave police the make of the car and the license plate number.
A local bird watcher witnessed the crime through his binoculars and took down a license plate number.
The patrolman ran a check on the cars license plate number and discovered that it was a rental car.
The attendant wrote down the license plate number of the car and gave it to the police.
She and a friend followed the truck and recorded its license plate number.
