CAPE CORAL, Fla.- Cape Coral police are cracking down on uninsured drivers. Thursday, they saturated the streets, tracking down these criminals.

People have been known to make fraudulent insurance cards or not have any car insurance at all. That costs others a lot of money.

WINK News rode along with a Cape police officer for several hours Thursday morning.

Millions of dollars are lost a year because of people with fake insurance. Currently, at the Cape police headquarters, 16 insurance companies are working along side police officers during this operation.

Thursday's operation worked like this: a police officer pulled a driver over for some type of traffic violation. During that stop, they checked with the insurance companies to see if the driver is legitamately covered.

Normally, law enforcement doesn't have this technology. They can't run insurance cards in real time, so they have to take it at face value. Having no insurance or fake insurance is a felony and ends up raising the cost of premiums for people with valid insurance.

Cape police are conducting this operation until 2:00 p.m. on Thursday.