State police to use electronic ticket system

Indiana State Police Lt. Paul Bucher, commander at the department’s Bloomington post, announced Sunday that officers statewide will begin using a new electronic ticket system to generate computerized citations.\nThe system, called the Electronic Citation and Warning System, was developed by the Indiana Supreme Court’s Judicial Technology and Automation Committee and will allow police to scan a driver’s license and registration to generate a computerized ticket, according to an Indiana State Police press release. The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Judicial Technology and Automation Committee received a $2.4 million federal grant to create the system\nThe Indiana State Police at the Bloomington Post trained troopers and officers on the new system over the last few weeks, according to the press release.\nThe project will help reduce paperwork for officers in the field and for local courts, and will free time for more critical tasks, Paul Whitesell, superintendent of the Indiana State Police, said in the release.\n“The partnership between the executive and judicial branches and our local and federal partners is making Hoosier roadways safer,” Whitesell said.