By Ashley Wiebe

MHPS moving towards E-ticketing

May 18, 2017 | 8:31 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB — Members of the Police Commission heard more about new technology, developed here, that will be rolling out in the next few months.

Constable Dave Allen made a presentation to the board on Thursday night, outlining ways a new app can help parking monitors and officers issue parking tickets.

“Currently parking monitors are hand writing tickets and then placing them on the windows,” Allen said. “The problem with that is it’s time consuming to have to hand write and then all of the data that they hand write has to go on to the computers anyways.”

A new app Allen spent weeks developing will allow the parking monitors to enter all of the information and submit it electronically.

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Physically tickets are printed from portable printers.

“It’s significantly faster for the parking monitors and it’s way more efficient for the police service in general,” he added.

Right now the technology can only be used for parking violations, like parking near a fire hydrant or in an alley, but Allen said eventually it can be modified to issue a wide variety of tickets.

“The hope is that this will be brought forward on a bigger e-ticketing solution, either using a program like this or a program from another vendor. Then the vast majority of tickets will be done in an e-ticket format like that,” Allen said.