The government has introduced "electronic beef jerky" in 2020, and is conducting a pilot program, and intends to start using it in phases in the first quarter of 2023.
In response to a question from a Legislative Council member on the Budget, the Transport Department pointed out that the Police Force issued more than 3.3 million fixed penalty notices, commonly known as "beef jerky", for illegal parking in 2021, an increase of 22% over 2020.
According to the data of the Transport Department, there were 926,000 registered vehicles of various types in Hong Kong last year. According to this calculation, the average number of each vehicle was copied about 3.6 times last year.
If the minimum fine of 320 yuan for illegal parking of "beef jerky" is calculated, the revenue generated by the fine for illegal parking of vehicles in the warehouse will reach 1.06 billion yuan, an increase of more than 190 million yuan compared with 2020.
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The illegal parking of "beef jerky" has increased by 1.3 times in two years
Citing police figures, the Transport Department pointed out that about 1.42 million, 2.71 million and 3.3 million sheets of illegally parked "beef jerky" were issued in 2019, 2020 and 2021 respectively. %, an increase of 1.3 times compared with 2019.
Among them, the largest increase is in the West Kowloon Police District, which will increase from about 632,000 in 2020 to 853,000 in 2021, an increase of 36.6%.
If the current minimum fine for illegal parking is 320 yuan, the illegal parking of "beef jerky" in 2021 will bring about 1.06 billion yuan in revenue to the warehouse, which is 190 million yuan more than in 2020.
The Hong Kong Police Force will expand the "Electronic Fixed Penalty Notice Pilot Scheme" on March 16, 2021, and apply it to the issuance of illegal vehicle tickets.
The photo shows a police-provided phone with the relevant mobile application installed with a portable printer for issuing electronic fixed penalty notices.
(Photo provided by the Police Force)
The introduction of electronic copy card copy last year 400 wrong copies must be withdrawn
The Police Force will start a trial of "electronic card copying" in March 2020. The document points out that the number of electronic fixed penalty notices issued in 2021 will be 1.2 times higher than that in 2020, increasing from about 1.07 million to 2.37 million, accounting for 2.37 million copies issued in 2021. About 72% in "beef jerky".
However, even if police officers switched to using "electronic fixed penalty notices", they still copied the wrong cards. In 2021, they copied 400 wrong cards and had to withdraw them. The error rate was 0.017%, which was 0.002% higher than that in 2020.
As for the "Intelligent Traffic Enforcement Robots" that the Police announced earlier, they are currently being tested on different road sections in the Hong Kong Island Region.
The Transport Department said that it will greatly increase the automatic parking system and increase the parking spaces as needed.
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