Hong Kong’s traffic wardens given smartphones and portable printers in trial run on e-tickets for illegal parking
- Traffic wardens will begin issuing printed fixed penalty notices in three districts – Wan Chai, Sham Shui Po and Tseung Kwan O – under pilot scheme
- New vehicle licences will feature a QR code, which a traffic warden can scan to quickly get a car’s registration number and other information
Errant motorists beware. Hong Kong’s traffic wardens are coming after you with printed parking tickets from next week to improve accuracy, police say.
About 60 traffic wardens, equipped with official mobile phones and portable printers, will begin issuing printed fixed penalty notices from Monday in three districts – Wan Chai, Sham Shui Po and Tseung Kwan O – under an “e-ticketing pilot scheme”.
Police said the HK$8 million scheme would replace handwritten tickets, which were prone to mistakes when essential information was being taken down.
The scheme would first apply to fixed penalty tickets against illegal parking.
“The system’s objective is to increase the overall accuracy of enforcement action,” Nip Hoi-kwan, acting senior superintendent of the police’s traffic management bureau, said on Thursday.
