'Incompetent': Watchdog's verdict on prisoner database

Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has branded the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis) a failure.

Chair of the PAC, Edward Leigh, said of the programme that was designed to implement a single database between the Prison Service and the National Probation Service: "Even we were surprised by the extent of the failure of C-Nomis", adding: "there was not even a minimum level of competence in the planning and execution of this project".

Parliament's PAC has criticised the C-Nomis programme
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The criticism comes following the start of the rollout of a revamped version of the C-Nomis system, after the initial project was stopped in August 2007 due to trebling costs.

For more, see Public Accounts Committee attacks C-Nomis project on ZDNet UK.