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Mobile Officer's Assistant (MOA) is a system of hand-held computers
that gives law enforcement officers the abilities to quickly check
license plates for registration violations and stolen vehicles,
and drivers' licenses for outstanding warrants, and to generate
electronic citations at roadside. MOA captures data from the magnetic
stripes or bar codes on drivers' licenses and uses the information
to automatically populate the query and citation fields. The violator
signs his or her name on the computer screen, then the ticket is
"beamed" to a small printer that produces paper copy.
MOA instantly transmits a digital version of the citation to police
headquarters for timely processing.
 Officers
of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department began using MOA
in January 2003 and have recovered dozens of stolen vehicles, identified
hundreds of wanted persons, and issued more than 250,000 electronic
tickets for moving violations. All 130 motorcycle officers of the
LVMPD are equipped with MOA units. Officers and managers of the
Plano, Texas, Police Department observed MOA in operation in Las
Vegas then abandoned previous plans for an electronic ticket writer
and specified Anacapa's MOA as their system of choice instead. Plano's
custom version of MOA was deployed during the Summer of 2006. The
first commercial MOA system was developed for the Austin Municipal
Court for use by the Austin Police Department.
View
and/or obtain an MOA brochure (1.6 MB)
Send
an email to Project Director Jack Stuster
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