Chalking: E Chalk with the tablet, Can the system do the following and what additional costs will be involved?
§ Are the images time stamped? Yes
§ Does the time stamp appear on the images?
§ Are the images saved? Ability to compare before during and after images of the chalking with a particular plate.
§ Require chalk Images to be tied to the violation, if a violation is issued.
- Violation already has images attached but if this is ever to go to court then it would require the chalk images and that they are timestamped as part of the violation file that is produced (exported or printed)
The answer from Robin -
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What is E-Chalking (Virtual Chalking)?
- Virtual chalking, or e-chalking is an electronic process that mirrors how an officer would manually chalk a vehicle's tire, in order to see how long they have been parked
- Virtual chalking creates a Time-Stamped image, of both the license plate & the entire car, in order to track how long they've been parked
- Virtual chalking provides an image that can be attached to the violation and is acceptable in a court-of-law, provided the date/time stamp is visible & clear.
- When LPR software is capturing plates, officers can simply click "Virtual Chalk" to create/save the image
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If a manual plate entry is performed, then an image must be captured manually to be added in the vehicles information/violation. |
The image that exists in the system from a chalk is part of the violation, unless the patrol officer deletes the image. If they select to issue
When issuing a violation the HH uses , the handheld devic will use the image as the first image for the this violation. Then the patrol At that time, a patrol officer can take additional photos should it be necessary.Images show time stamps (written on the image itself) so effectively
The Time Stamp shows the date & time that the image was taken, in the bottom right-hand corner of the image.
- Effectively, the chalk image has a stamp of the time/date the vehicle was first chalked on file
- This time-stamp can be used later as a reference picture to determine whether or not a violation should be issued
- If a violation is issued, the chalk image becomes one of
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- the first images associated with this violation
- The image is stored, UNLESS the patrol officer deletes the image.