Ontario highway cops to issue e-tickets
TORONTO – The OPP has embarked on a pilot program that allows cops to print “e-tickets” in their cruisers rather than writing out traffic citations the old fashioned way.
The police force is installing new computer software that lets police officers print “e-tickets” in their cruisers instead of writing them by hand.
About 330 OPP cruisers and 220 Ministry of Transportation vehicles will have the in-cab software system in place by Dec. 31, 2006, Canadian Press reports.
Sgt. Cam Woolley tells the news service that officers will be able to transmit tickets electronically to courts and record-keepers, and give drivers copies made by new printers.
When a licence is swiped into the system, officers can simply check a driver’s background to determine if a licence is valid and if the vehicle’s information is up-to-date.
According to CP — the new software is also intended to stop tickets from being quashed on technicalities because of unreadable handwriting on tickets — bad news for drivers who catch a break fighting tickets based on errors.
— from Canadian Press
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