WA Police move to digital infringements

WA Police will transition into the digital landscape, moving to electronic infringements this month.
Police officers will use their phones to issue the fines to people who have broken the law while on the road.
Superintendent Lance Martin from the Digital Policing Division at WA Police says process uses existing tools with an electric spin.
“Officers will stop, do a name check of the person and a vehicle registration check, fill in some details electronically,” he said. “Then subsequent to that, a letter will come out to that member of the community, providing them the details of their traffic infringment.”
There are around 180,000 hand written traffic fines written in WA each year. Superintendent Martin says the new system will make it clearer for police officers back in the office.
“As you can imagine a large number of those written on the side of the road are hard to read,” he said.
The new system will also allow police to target where the infringement hotspots are around Perth.
“We’ll see where the majority of offences are occorring and compare them to known black-spots,” Superintendent Martin told Oliver Peterson.
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