The fix is in for cops who toss out tickets for friends and family.

The NYPD has started tracking every summons electronically – even before officers hand them out on the street.

“It used to be very easy to have a ticket taken care of,” said a police source familiar with the new system. “Someone would make a call and the summons would disappear.

“Now, every ticket is accounted for, so if there’s one missing, questions are going to get asked.”

In fact, sources said, Internal Affairs will launch a probe into any summons that is scanned into the database but does not eventually get written up and sent back to a precinct.

The information will be stored at each precinct and at borough headquarters – so the NYPD has two ways to track missing tickets.

“There is no epidemic of tickets getting tossed because of people saying, ‘Hey, my uncle’s on the job,’” a second source said. “But it does happen.”

Cops could still give someone a break and not write a ticket, “but once it’s written, it would be real difficult to make it go away,” the source said.

The new procedure applies to parking and moving tickets issued by cops, as well as “C” summonses for quality of life offenses and environmental violations.

Top NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said the system “provides greater efficiency throughout the entire summons process.”

Summonses are big business for the city.

Police have issued more than 1.5 million parking, moving and C summonses this year, down about 8%.

In the past few years, the NYPD has targeted drivers who talk on their cell phones without an earpiece or send text messages.

(Source: NY Daily News)