Ticket quotas are real and they exist. Enough said!
However, as a result of ticket quotas some strange things occur as officer strive to meet the quota system or be reprimanded or fired for not doing so. Afterall, a police officer has to enforce the laws no matter who the violator is, right? Speeding offences need to be handled as a serious matter, and part of each officers job is to write traffic tickets.
But even to himself?
St. Andrzej Tymanski of the Bialogard, Poland police department recently realized that he was not going to meet his ticket quota. So he did what he had to do. He ticked himself for speeding. Sgt. Tyamanski said that he was not willing to ticket someone who he did not think deserved the ticket just to meet his quota, so rather than hurt an unsuspecting motorist he decided instead to ticket himself. He got out of his police car and walked on the railroad tracks, which apparently is against the law in Bialogard. Then he wrote himself a ticket for the offence.
The fine assessed to this ticket was about $7.80 USD, which Sgt. Tymanski paid.
Good police officers are hard to find sometimes, but Sgt. Tymanski certainly is one of them!