Paper fines phased out

PAPER fixed-fine penalty notices are on their last legs as the last regions switch to the new digital procès-verbal électronique which halves the amount of time police spend writing out papillons and has halved the number of legal challenges.

Centre, Franche-Comté and Champagne-Ardenne are the last to move to the PVE which, like the nine million speeding tickets, will be sent from the centre at Rennes. In all, that amounts to 26 million fines a year. Towns are equipping local police with tablet computers for PVEs to end the papillon completely.