policing
RSS policing£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The contract will also help support public order policing activities involving several thousand officers within confined locations, and ensure Airwave can scale to cope with the risk of "a spontaneous major incident"... [03 Nov 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News The impact of mobile technology on policing was the topic at a RIM-sponsored roundtable where speakers including Gough discussed the benefits police get from their mobile devices. There are roughly 76,000 officers in... [20 Oct 2009]
Give workers a say in corporate IT
Comment Locking down the infrastructure and policing bans on certain activities is in itself expensive anyway. Just learn to manage it appropriately. There can be little doubt that the personal and domestic use of technology has... [09 Sep 2009]
Services Team and Police Build Performance Management System That Helps Cut Crime
White Paper The resulting Policing Performance Management solution is a data management system that puts vital information, including crime figures, at the disposal of police officers. To streamline police management and service to... [01 Sep 2009]
Data Mining for Intelligence Led Policing
White Paper The benefit of data mining for police seems tremendous, yet only a few limited applications are documented. This paper starts with describing the implementation problems of police data mining and introduces a new approach that tries to... [29 Aug 2009]
Crime In Focus : A paper examining pitfalls in public crime mapping
White Paper This was one of a number of pledges made in a green paper aimed to improve policing and its appreciation by the public, business, the media and other public service agencies1. In July 2008, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith... [19 Aug 2009]
Video Changes the Future of Policing
White Paper Public safety organizations continuously look for new tools to help them better serve and protect the citizens of the community as well as to ensure the safety of their officers. For years, law enforcement has used radio to provide them... [15 Aug 2009]
£24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls
News Home Office policing and security minister, David Hanson, told Parliament last week that millions are now being spent to fund ISPs', telcos' and mobile operators' retention of communications data under the European Data... [13 Jul 2009]
IT security training now the 'substantial' task of GCHQ
News Twelve different government departments were represented [at the workshop], including the Department for Work and Pensions, the Home Office, HM Revenue & Customs, and the National Policing Improvements Agency," the... [01 Jul 2009]
A Planet of smarter cities
White Paper Smarter transportation, policing, governance and grids promise relief to urban areas. As populations grow at a fast clip, they are stressing our city infrastructures. [23 Jun 2009]
Is it 999 for emergency services comms?
News Despite the questions over Airwave's data capacity, Nick Deyes, head of information and communications development at the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), told delegates at the forum that around 450 public... [15 Jun 2009]
Police mobiles cautioned for bad behaviour
News The Home Office claims that mobile devices are cutting time officers spend doing paperwork at the station, citing the Birmingham force where handhelds have helped reduce the time taken for stop and searches from 20 minutes to 60 seconds,... [12 Jun 2009]
'Airwave does do data - unlike what some of the media say'
Comment Last year the head of biometrics at the National Policing Improvement Agency, Geoff Whitaker, claimed the Airwave network was not - "at present" - able to handle image file sizes generated by a trial of mobile biometric... [11 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo The system will bring together data from five operational areas of policing, custody, crime, intelligence, child abuse and domestic abuse into a central system. Following a week of political turmoil culminating in a... [10 Jun 2009]
When will organisations pay for data breaches?
Comment The role of the Information Commissioner's Office (or ICO) as the independent body charged with policing and enforcing data protection legislation is to promote good practice and ultimately, as the regulator, to take... [02 Jun 2009]
