Referred to only as Officer C by the Christchurch City Council, his A-plus performance has seen him issue 17,777 tickets from 2017 to the start of this year, raking in a total of $206,096 in revenue for the city council.
Last year he issued 3.1 tickets an hour on average. He has been a parking warden for seven years.
While Officer C may be a high flyer among parking wardens in Christchurch, he pales compared to Auckland’s most prolific warden.
In spite of being in the role for just over a year, he managed to earn the Auckland Council $744,644 in the 13 months leading up to April, issuing 14,250 tickets.
Auckland Council issued an average of about 30,000 tickets a month, about 330,000 across the entire 13 month period.
The Auckland officer handed out 5000 more tickets than his closest competitor in the super city.
This resulted in the city council collecting $4,310,637 last year, $4,774,817 in 2018 and $4,365,445 in 2017.
A city council spokeswoman said it was important to note that revenue gathering was not the goal for the parking enforcement team.
“The key reasons for parking control is to ensure that vehicles have safe access to the places where the occupants need to go, and that the availability of parking is equitable for all drivers,” she said.
City council manager of transport operations Steffan Thomas added the council did not offer any bonuses or incentivise officers to write a higher number of infringement notices.
“Officer performance is based on beat coverage, responding to high priority complaints and quality of evidence to support infringement notices,” he said.
