parking ticket computers

[ballanceg]

Looking for agencies that use handheld computers for issuing parking tickets and printers either as a unit with the handheld or separate with wireless or bluetooth connectivity. Thanks.

[lexcoptk]

Our city has a couple of units (about the size of a PDA with an attached printer.). They suck. I can hand write four to five tickets in the time it takes to print one. My squad rarely does parking enforcement (we leave that to our Safety Officers mostly) however about two or three times a year the right person complains to the right person and we have to go downtown and write everything in sight. This happened when we first got these units. The Lt. said to take them out and break them in. I could only get about 75 tickets in an 8 hour day versus 200+ hand writing them. I will never use that machine again.

[ejay]

We use IPARQ. http://www.iparq.com/ As does the city of Oxnard. It sucks, the printer bateries don't last, and the equipment is old and out dated. IPARQ offers newer stuff, but they never want to give it to us. We have so much invested in them so far that we kind of have to stick with them. And to top it off, they get a small % of each parking fine.

We recently got a memo stating that we have to turn in our paper parking cites and to not use them anymore. That means if we see a parking violation while in the field, we would have had to check a unit out at the start of shift, or call parking enforcement out to handle it.

One plus is that you can pump out five or six cites in the time it would take to write one out on paper. (Less for you parking vets out there ;)

There are a lot of systems out there. Use anything but IPARQ.