Smart Paper & TrafPol tickets

We develop smart paper apps here ( you know, manually write on the
special paper with digital pen and it magically appears on the network
as a digital document in legible type, via voodoo ) .

One of the apps ( not ours, I hasten to say! ) this has been used for
is for a Police Force, principally their TrafPol section. The rolling
speed camera units ( i.e. in car cameras ) had been restricted to
issuing no more than 30 tickets per oficer per shift, as the manual
paperwork back at the office would take up too much time if they
exceeded this.

However since they introduced a smart paper app whereby the ticket is
written in the car at the time of the offence then transmitted back to
TrafPol HQ via Bluetooth, the officer only has to verify the manifest
at the end of the shift to agree with what's been issued.

The new record for any one officer on an 8 hour shift is 278 tickets,
seemingly.

Three guesses where this might be in use?

 

Dave Jennings:

Narnia? ;-)

 

NW. ( NoWhere near, obv...)

 

Not being transmitted via a custom version of Bluetooth called
Brunsteeth, by any chance?

 

You may think that, however I of course couldn't possibly comment".

 

I know. I forgot to say in my OP- the pilot cost 500k for a 50 pen
system, with a scheduled breakeven point of 18 months.

7 months into the trial it's bought and paid for itself already.

 

D'you reckon riding round with a very strong Bluetooth transmitter
turned on in my pocket[1] would discourage them from giving me a writeup
due to *real* paperwork being needed?

[1] Is that Bluetooth in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

 

MikeH wrote:> D'you reckon riding round with a very strong Bluetooth
transmitter

Inspirational. I applaud your efforts.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dave Jennings

A *very* strong argument for contesting each and every ticket in court,
it would seem.

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I reckon most magistrates could easily say "Speeding? Guilty. Hang him.
Next" 278 times on one 8-hour sitting though.

 

Hmm. Process is that the offender verifies the ticket accuracy before
it's "signed off", thereby any data that's transmitted has been agreed
/ admitted to.

Now, to make it sneakier, the software that transcribes from
handwriting to typed data can verify individuals handwriting, so knows
which officer issued it even if for some reason someone queries it. The
pens are "logged on" prior to use and "off" after, so the data is time
stamped so making it impossible for someone to add to the notes after
the event without the specific individual being identified.

 

In that case it is physically impossible to get 278 victims in 8 hours.

 

The shorthand of the law?

 

It's a video car, they don't need to stop you! I don't know what they
have to write up in the car though.

'Hog

 

HTF do they get you to agree and sign if they don't stop you?

 

You are deemed to have agreed if you don't complain at the time of the
alledged offence[1]. It's a bit like NIPs being posted.

[1] It's not their fault if you don't hear them say "Excuse me sonny".

 

You're right, my misunderstanding.

It seems that the mobile cars don't stop you but there is attached
paperwork that at the end of the shift the officer needs to deal with,
but instead, if my chat with the wallah involved in this is accurate,
with the new system they can and do write the paperwork whilst in the
car, and this is transmitted back to HQ for them to validate at the end
of the shift.

HTH.

 

Wow! How many megawatts is the transmitter?

 

<wince>

 

Wik proposed

Just what I thought. Bluetooth?