Date:
28.11.86.
Time:
Reporter:
8.30
PMO
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CHAIRMAN:
Mr Commissioner, that comes to my question
about the computerisation. Obviously, the increase in these computer reports is enormous. What are the level of staff using these reports, the information in the reports ? These reports are only dealing with fixed penalty tickets. How much information do you really need ? The computerisation with all this enormous amount of reports, dealing with only fixed penalty tickets,
how useful is it ?
C of P: Can I ask the Deputy Director, Traffic, to answer
that, as it all takes place within his Department ?
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CHAIRMAN:
Sure.
DD (T): Mr Chairman, some of the reports are purely for management purposes and to check on the life cycle of the ticket, but in fact many of the reports are further information concerning changes of addresses of people who actually owed money, so it really is a method of managing and tracing debtors so that the necessary court orders can be assigned to new addresses, traced, the money paid up and so on. So it is a management of the system on one 22 side and a very enhanced, increased capability to trace debtors.
And they have to be looked at, that's the point.
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CHAIRMAN:
You mean to trace people who don't pay ?
DD (T): That's right. It gives the status on the ticket from the management side as to whether the ticket has been paid or not, as to whether an order has been issued or not, as to whether a warrant has been issued or not and so on, all the way
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concerning changes of address, people changing vehicle ownership, new driving licences and so on. So the system is extremely complicated. A mixture of both.
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MR POON: Following that, may I ask in your opinion whether
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