eCitation Software Solutions
Electronic ticketing benefits many areas of public safety. eCitation also provides benefits to both large and small agencies. digiTICKET, our citation solution, is deployed to many agencies with only two or three law enforcement officers on shift at a time. Saltus also has eCitation software customers as large as the Kansas Highway Patrol and the City of New Orleans Police Department. In total, agencies issue over 100,000 citations and warnings every month.
States Supporting eCitation Software
Numerous states strongly support the benefits provided by eCitation software. Many states provide home grown or generic citation solutions for their state law enforcement agencies and some provide solutions directly to local agencies. Some states that understand private industry can provide more robust solutions with better agency support, offer funding incentives or vehicles to assist with electronic traffic ticket procurements.
There are significant benefits from eCitation software to all areas of state and local government:
Local, District and State Courts
- Elimination of illegible handwriting and officer errors
- Elimination of redundant, error prone data entry
- Increased cash flow due to immediate electronic data upload into Court Case Management systems
- Reduced citizen complaints due to more timely ticket payment availability
State and Local Governments
- Recapture of lost revenues due to reduced dismissals
- Increased ticket writing productivity
- Increased traffic enforcement with no increase in manpower/hours
- Increased officer and public safety due to reduced stop times
- Reduction in cost due to elimination of redundant data entry
Law Enforcement Agencies
- Reduction in traffic stop durations resulting in:
- Increased officer and public safety
- Re-allocation of resources
- Elimination of manual data entry/paperwork
- Automated approval processes
- Ability to report against ticketing productivity in near real time
- Ability to capture and report on grant activity and racial profiling information
- Ability to capture and report demographic data
Law Enforcement Officers
- Increased safety due to shorter traffic stops
- Reduced distraction during traffic stops
- Increase productivity of motor officers and traffic check points
- Ability to issue multiple types of tickets
- Electronic traffic ticket systems have the ability to deploy to a wide variety of portable, rugged hardware options including Windows, iOS, and Android devices