I have the vehicle's licence plate number.
TAR-gah — two syllables; clean 'a' sounds, no diphthong.
Use when you have captured a licence plate during or after an incident. A plate number is one of the most actionable pieces of information you can give police.
Italian licence plates follow a national format and are searchable in the national vehicle database. Even a partial plate can narrow the search significantly.
Ho fotografato la targa.
I photographed the plate.
Confirms visual evidence — more reliable than memory.
La targa iniziava con AB1.
The plate started with AB1.
Partial plate — still useful for police database searches.
Era un'auto straniera con targa tedesca.
It was a foreign car with a German plate.
Foreign plates can be traced through Interpol coordination.
Italian police can run a plate search (ricerca targa) within minutes using the Ministero dei Trasporti database. A hit-and-run driver can often be identified within hours.