Building a More Intelligent Police Force
Swartz, Nikki
In Humberside, England, the local police force is building a cutting-edge knowedge management environment for its officers.
Humberside Police, whose officers serve 900,000 citizens, recently signed a £1.7 million ($3 million U.S.) contract with Unisys to re-engineer and develop its core information technology (IT) and data warehouses. The force’s new data warehouse will link more than 40 existing but disparate core databases into a single knowledge bank, enabling Humberside Police to effectively manage and store information accessed by 3,000 officers across the region. The IT system overhaul is expected to be complete by the end of 2004 and will create a Web-based environment, allowing for a faster, more reliable data management system and an intelligence-led IT policing solution.
The data will be available to all police officers, as forces across the United Kingdom will be able to access the warehouse. A disaster recovery service will ultimately house the data warehouse and all re-engineered applications, providing backup support.
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