staffordshire police
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment Chris Walker, Staffordshire What possible justification can Manchester police have for keeping for five years the records of tens of thousands of innocent citizens going about their legitimate business. [12 Jun 2008]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study Police in Staffordshire are trialling video technology to capture and store footage officers have gathered on the beat using cameras worn on the body. The Staffordshire trial - based in Hanley police station in Stoke-on-Trent - started in November... [12 Mar 2008]
Software cops mount car boot challenge
News Operation Carter, involved representatives from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (Elspa), the Federation Against Copyright Theft, the police and Staffordshire Trading Standards. [20 Oct 2005]
Clink for DrinkorDie software counterfeiters
Andrew Eardley, 35, of Staffordshire, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud in May last year and was sentenced today to 18 months, suspended for two years. Eight men (six Britons and two Ukrainians) from the piracy ring, dubbed DrinkorDie, were... [06 May 2005]
Courts link up with DWP database
A total of 10 courts will have access to the system by Christmas following a seven month pilot project in Staffordshire earlier this year. The move follows magistrates' access to credit reference agency databases and to the Police National Computer... [30 Nov 2004]
Mobile police increase time on the beat
News Police in Staffordshire are aiming to increase the amount of time officers spend out on the streets by using rugged GPRS-enabled laptops to access crime reporting systems. Ian De Soyza, project manager at Staffordshire Police, said all officers on... [23 Sep 2003]
Police force announces surveillance overhaul
News Staffordshire Police is set to complete a major network upgrade that will allow it to make better use of video and CCTV footage to pinpoint crime hotspots. Phil Lovell, head of technology services at Staffordshire Police, said current and predicted... [20 May 2003]
UK tech infrastructure 'not prepared' for terrorist attack
News Mike Slaney, an emergency planning manager for Staffordshire and general secretary of the UK Emergency Planning Society, said his own enquiries have suggested the real reason for the current delays is a lack of money. [21 Feb 2003]
Biggest-ever police raids smash global piracy rings
News The NHTCU arrested six British men in the their 20s and 30s and searched premises in Kent, London, Merseyside and Staffordshire. Police in the US, Australia, Canada, Norway, Finland and the UK have carried out a series of raids as part of the... [12 Dec 2001]
Police force steps up server security
News Speaking to silicon.com, William Vance, VP of R&D at PentaSafe, said police forces are a security challenge because of their fragmented IT systems. The software will enable the force to secure its primary database, which includes data on areas... [28 Feb 2001]
'Hyenas of criminal world' tracked down by police database
News The system was built by Nottingham-based software specialists ABM in conjunction with the forces of Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and the West Midlands. [23 Feb 2001]
Police force turns to Bull for system update
News The Staffordshire police force has awarded Bull Information Systems a £2m contract to install a new command and control system. Graham Nutton, project manager at Staffordshire Police, said: "This is rocket science compared to the old system which... [13 Aug 1999]
Keep updated for stories matching staffordshire police via RSS
