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Can £7m dent £105bn cyber crime menace?
News Co-architect of the PCeU detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie admitted that industry backing and expertise will be critical if the unit, staffed mainly by Metropolitan Police Service computer crime... [01 Oct 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment Patrolling the mean streets of London on a Friday evening isn't where you would usually find a CIO but then not many CIOs get to experience front line service in the way the Metropolitan Police... [02 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?
Comment Certainly when it comes to IT it's easier to think of the public sector as a series of small businesses - departments, quangos, NGOs, NHS trusts, police forces - that occasionally work together but more... [30 Apr 2008]
Police e-crime funding set for green light?
News Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, who has just stepped down as head of the Metropolitan Police Service's e-crime unit, is waiting for Home Office approval for the £1.3m start-up costs for the... [12 Mar 2008]
Government reveals snooping figures
News Hundreds of UK public bodies are authorised to intercept individuals' communications, including the Ambulance Service and Fire Authorities, the British Transport Police, HM Revenue &... [30 Jan 2008]
Customer data breach at UK loans website
News Loans.co.uk, which is based in Watford, reported the incident to Hertfordshire police which said it is a matter for the data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office.silicon.com's Full Disclosure... [13 Sep 2007]
East England Ambulance rides the Airwave
News Airwave, which has already been adopted by a number of police forces, gives users a resilient, clear comms line that can be shared by many users within each service or by two or more emergency services... [24 Aug 2007]
Police give Holmes a sleuthing upgrade
News John Neil, director of operational service for the Police Information technology Organisation, said Holmes 2 helps police forces and incident rooms across the country to manage the large... [16 Mar 2007]
Public sector lacks data-security sense
News Lieutenant general Sir Edmund Burton, a key advisor to the Cabinet Office on information assurance issues, said that with the exception of the police, defence and intelligence communities,... [02 Feb 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Bring back MMS
Comment Police, too, could match up snaps sent in by members of the public of suspected stolen goods with a database of missing items. But the cameraphone may yet be about to have a renaissance as a... [22 Jan 2007]
Met Police hands £350m IT deal to Capgemini
News A Capgemini-led consortium has beaten EDS to a seven-year IT outsourcing deal with London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) worth around £350m. The EDS-led metAgility consortium loses out but has been... [05 Oct 2005]
Police get extra back-up by linking systems
Case Study Two police forces have linked their systems to allow them to share intelligence and provide disaster recovery back-up. But until then police IT departments will continue to work independently of each other. [23 Aug 2005]
ID Cards on Trial: Minister defends "robust" biometrics
News He said the bill gives no power for any authorities to trawl the register but then admitted that the police will be able to conduct fingerprint matches against the ID database so long as they have first tried to do a... [07 Jun 2005]
One in five outsourcing deals are terminated
News These include security zones and police check-points in key cities that could be used to instantly close main roads in the event of an incident. The new figures found those expectations have declined to... [01 Jun 2005]
Tory MPs propose radical government IT overhaul
News Conservative MPs are proposing radical changes to government IT that would include the creation of an IT minister, IT contracts being put in the public domain, a new cyber-crime police unit and the... [11 Mar 2005]
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