Wichita police will be able to write more tickets, more quickly when the department adopts an electronic citation system later this year.

KAKE-TV reports the City Council on Tuesday approved a contract for the new technology. The program will cost about $500,000, to be covered partly with a grant, but police officials expect it will save the city $1 million over five years.

Electronic ticketing spares officers from writing citations by hand. Instead, a driver’s license is swiped through a machine that prints out the ticket.

Wichita Police Capt. Darrell Atteberry says the department expects to write an additional 1,700 tickets a year, since the e-citations will let officers get back on the road more quickly.