Today’s professionals in public safety continue to integrate technology into how they perform their jobs in a more productive and safe manner. Automated output devices like mobile printers make their jobs easier when they need to issue a summons, a citation, or other documentation, and are a good choice for other applications like tagging evidence. In-vehicle and on-person automation is quickly taking the place of older handwritten processes that took too long, varies by individual, increases costs in data transcription, and led to errors that jeopardized collections and enforcement.

Many departments are now using handheld computers and vehicle-mounted laptops to capture and send data electronically in an effort to help improve overall efficiency while also reducing errors and costs. Brother™ mobile public safety printing solutions are being integrated at the same time, for full-page, high-resolution documents with text and graphics – such as Amber Alerts, summons and warrants – and for small-format printing of e-citations, warnings, parking violations, driver information exchanges, receipts and more up to 4" wide. Generating serialized and barcoded evidence tags on demand in the field to help reduce errors, improve tracking and cut costs is another trend.