How do they match: Parking Enforcement Workers

  • Patrol assigned area, such as public parking lot or city streets to issue tickets to overtime parking violators and illegally parked vehicles.

  • Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers.
  • Identify vehicles in violation of parking codes, checking with dispatchers when necessary to confirm identities or to determine whether vehicles need to be booted or towed.
  • Maintain assigned equipment and supplies, such as hand-held citation computers, citation books, rain gear, tire-marking chalk, and street cones.
  • Make arrangements for illegally parked or abandoned vehicles to be towed, and direct tow-truck drivers to the correct vehicles.
  • Mark tires of parked vehicles with chalk and record time of marking, and return at regular intervals to ensure that parking time limits are not exceeded.
  • Patrol an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance.
  • Perform simple vehicle maintenance procedures, such as checking oil and gas, and report mechanical problems to supervisors.
  • Write warnings and citations for illegally parked vehicles.

  • Clean work sites.
  • Direct vehicle traffic.
  • Locate suspicious objects or vehicles.
  • Maintain mechanical equipment.
  • Maintain supply or equipment inventories.
  • Monitor vehicle movement or location.