Decriminalised parking enforcement

The monitoring of stationary traffic (including parking enforcement; PÜ ) is the perception of sovereign duty to punish violations in the static road as a traffic offense. These primarily include violations of maintenance and parking bans and temporary and paid parking.

Examples

• Ensuring the vehicle rotation on short-term parking
• Securing revenue from paid parking places
• Avoiding the blockage of fire and emergency access roads and designated parking
• The removal of motor vehicles in dangerous places for increasing road safety by Abschleppungen
• The guarantee of getting through vehicles of the emergency services and fire brigades ( 3.10 m remaining lane width )
• The assistance of parking space concepts by reducing car traffic in certain areas (this applies for example to residents in parking lots, or to direct the parked cars in inner cities )

The monitoring of stationary traffic is mostly carried out by uniformed service personnel ( traffic warden or police hostess). These may belong to employees and officers of a municipality or city ( Municipal traffic monitoring) or the relevant police authority ( traffic police ). The field of application of municipal and police forces service is usually spatially divided.

The exhibition of warnings with caution money the service personnel are usually equipped with small computers with integrated printer, which is also a Vornotierung is possible, or with a PDA these days; in part, the violations will be written by hand even today. Recent applications are based on the direct transmission of the notification to the competent regulatory authority over cellular or Wi-Fi. The service personnel can also display also road traffic offenses, if this for a fact a fine ( about 35 euros ) is provided.

A further area of ​​service forces, the arrangement of dislocations or Abschleppungen of improperly parked vehicles and the understanding of the investigating authorities of suspected counterfeit parking permit. In Munich, trained service personnel of the municipal traffic monitoring have to give the task of information in relation to the city; these are at a sign " Info" recognizable.

In addition, law enforcement officers are entrusted with the prosecution of violations of provisions on sanctions in stationary traffic, but also deal with almost all possible violations in flowing traffic (eg traffic offenses ).

Cars with " speeding ticket " traffic monitoring Munich

" Speeding ticket " ( Saxon police)