Developing Affordable Smart Solutions for Police Reporting

Abstract

Due to the high costs of many eCitation systems currently on the market, many police agencies are still using pen and paper to fill out their citations. This traditional citation method may be cost effective. However, it is time consuming and the chance of errors occurring on the form are high. PARIS, an eCitation system developed by The University Of Oklahoma (OU) Center For Intelligent Transportation Systems (CITS), has solved many of the issues faced by these agencies but because of the high cost of implementation, it is not a viable option for all police agencies in the State of Oklahoma. By taking advantage of the smartphones already carried by most officers and the help of Xamerin forms, I offer a solution based on the current design and implementation of PARIS called PARIS+. The development of the cross platform application, PARIS+, creates a police data collection system that is both more affordable and easier to use than currently available systems while still delivering high accuracy data for electronic citations. Since the system was also developed with scalability in mind, it has the potential to be able to support Crash, Driving Under Influence(DUI), or Stored Vehicle Report Forms in the futur