PARKING wardens are to be electronically ‘tagged’ in a £1.2 million project to tighten up street patrols.
In an overhaul of how evidence for parking penalties is gathered, wardens will use new hand-held computers equipped with global positioning technology that uses satellites to pin point where they are.
The handsets allow parking managers to track the whereabouts of wardens from their Camden Town offices and are supposed to provide a greater standard of proof when tickets are challenged.
Wardens will also be given digital cameras and will be told to take pictures of all parking infringements.
Bosses want photographic proof that tickets have been attached to offending cars.
The state-of-the-art equipment has already been bought using cash from the council’s financial reserves.
And the Town Hall’s streets chief Alex Williams said yesterday (Wednesday) that he expected the new system to be up and running by the end of the year.
He said: “At the moment the only evidence we rely on is the warden’s pocket book and it has been felt that we need a more robust form of evidence.”