police national computer
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News The Airwave Tetra network was designed for voice comms, and while the radios can be used for sending basic data - such as two-digit codes - complex data tasks such as checks of the Police National... [20 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet There's also the City of London Police force, which battles online crime as part of its role as the national lead police force for fraud and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca)... [20 Jul 2009]
Soca's cybercrime cops score 21 convictions
News Soca is joined in the fight against internet crime by the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU), which supports the National Fraud Reporting Centre and helps to develop the overall response to cybercrime by... [15 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment The Home Office's role in safeguarding national security means Vernon has oversight of the most high profile and controversial IT projects in the UK, ranging from organising IT security at the London 2012 Olympic Games... [10 Jul 2009]
Police mobiles cautioned for bad behaviour
News Police officers are frustrated that they believed they would have a handheld device that would automatically connect you to the Police National Computer, tell you what's... [12 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Johnson will also have ultimate responsibility for the National DNA Database kept by UK police. Johnson will also have responsibility for the Police National Database -... [10 Jun 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News The City of London Police (Colp) force has launched £1bn-worth of computer crime investigations over the last year, it was revealed this week. During its first year in operation as the... [25 Mar 2009]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News A national identity card that became essential for government and financial transactions would also establish an audit trail to which the intelligence services and much of the police would have... [23 Mar 2009]
£250k to help police ID stolen phones
News Home Office minister Alan Campbell said the funding will be used to integrate the Police National Computer (PNC) with the National Mobile Phone Register (NMPR) - meaning... [17 Mar 2009]
eBay: e-crime cops latest recruit
News The UK's new e-crime unit is already collecting criminal intelligence reports from eBay in an effort to help stamp out fraud and data theft targeting the auctioneer.eBay is feeding information on fraudulent activity on its site to the... [25 Feb 2009]
Police failing to grasp new tech
News Forces could also cut paperwork each time an officer stops a member of the public and asks them to account for their behaviour, using the GPRS on officers' digital radios to log the officer's position and ethnicity of the member of the... [16 Feb 2009]
Police database will make "a very big difference"
News The "sheer complexity" of extracting and sharing information from hundreds of local computer systems used by the 43 forces in England and Wales is one of the biggest tasks facing UK police, Richard... [09 Feb 2009]
Crash cops get plumbed into national computer
News The Crash system will allow police officers at the scene of car accidents to file reports directly to the Police National Computer using PDAs and smartphones, as well as... [28 Jan 2009]
Legal Eye: Does Home Office online surveillance go too far?
Comment The commercial cost: Does increasing police access to the internet potentially decrease its commercial appeal? The Home Office's recent announcement that it is working with the EU to grant police powers... [21 Jan 2009]
Photo: Policing the depths of the Tube
Photo Coaker said: "The benefits are obvious to me, just from hearing officers say that, for the first time, they can connect to other officers or the PNC [Police National Computer] when... [14 Jan 2009]
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