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All change at BAPCO
At the BAPCO annual general meeting held on 27th July 2010 Hayden Newton was elected as President with Alan House and Sue Lampard being confirmed as President Elect and Vice President respectively.
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Barnsley boost beat time
All frontline officers and police community support officers (PCSO) in Barnsley now have access to police records on the move, meaning less time at the station and more time in the community.
Survey reveals investment in technology remains a priority for fire professionals
PageOne Communications has revealed the results of a recently commissioned survey of 500 operations managers at fire stations throughout the UK. The survey looked into current trends in technology adoption; changes in fire service expenditure; and managers’ views on future social and environmental threats.
Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service the first brigade to implement web map service from Ordnance Survey
OS OnDemand is a national web map service that serves raster images, including OS MasterMap Topography Layer, directly into a customer’s geospatial application using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) WMS standards.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service designs an Internet annual service performance plan
Kent Fire is the first FRS to design its annual service performance plan specifically for the internet. The plan, which has been published on its website, aims is to reach a wider audience with information on performance and plans for the future, as well helping reduce costs and the environmental impact of printing. The plan is also being promoted via social media such as Twitter.
Manchester processes 330% more intelligence on crime using NBIS
Cityco, Manchester’s city centre management company, has reported a 330% increase in the amount of intelligence and offender data collated since implementing NBIS (National Business Information System), the web-based data sharing technology from Hicom. As a result Cityco has identified 47 prolific and persistent offenders operating within Manchester and has excluded a further 39 individuals from the city centre in the last 12 months. Cityco’s NBIS system now holds information on over 3,000 offenders who are known to Cityco’s Business Crime Unit.
More than half of police forces sign up to IAM managed service
New managed service provides viable route to secure information sharing, inter-force collaboration and operational efficiencies
USB drive receives formal approval for public sector use
The device protects confidential data through 256-bit encryption and is the first of its type to be certified.
Crimestoppers signs for ABM’s confidential information recording system
Independent crime-fighting charity, Crimestoppers, has partnered with ABM in a five-year agreement for Information in Confidence (IIC), part of the abmpegasus suite of cutting-edge covert management tools.
New Flatbook makes debut in UK
German company Bormann has launched the Flatbook C09 mobile wireless PC for use in any police vehicle following what it calls “a very successful launch across Europe.”
Modernising Policing: reform and social responsibility
The Fourth Modernising Policing Conference (CPD certified) will take place at The Barbican, London, 7th December 2010.
The world’s first comprehensive MSc in Mobile Telecommunication Engineering
mpirical limited and Middlesex University have launched an MSc in Mobile Telecommunication Engineering that blends cutting-edge technology training with real world experience,
NICE incident management solution available as part of Motorola’s Dimetra IP radio system
NICE Systems has announced that NICE Inform - an incident information management solution for public safety organizations - has successfully completed integration testing for Motorola’s TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) Dimetra IP release 7.
Service providers must embrace cloud services and bundle them into their enterprise solutions, says report by Analysys Mason
The report, entitled Enterprise cloud services: worldwide forecast 2010–2015, states that the global market for enterprise cloud-based services will grow from USD12.1 billion (EUR9.4 billion) in 2010 to USD35.6 billion (EUR27.5 billion) in 2015.
Servo awarded framework agreement for UK public sector IT managed services
Servo is one of only 12 IT companies in the UK to be awarded a framework agreement for IT managed services by Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for all UK public services and part of the Efficiency and Reform Group within the Cabinet Office.
New TETRA Internet portal containing database of TETRA applications
TETRA-Applications.com, the world’s first independent Internet Portal for TETRA communications professionals has announced that its Internet Portal has gone live.
Northgate purchases police duty management system
Northgate Public Services has announced the acquisition of CARM Police Duty Management System from Concorde Informatics in a move designed to further boost Northgate’s demand management services for hard-pressed police forces across the country.
IAFC President testifies in support of US public safety broadband network
International Association of Fire Chiefs President and Chairman of the Board Jeff Johnson, chief of Tualatin Valley (Ore.) Fire & Rescue, testified before the US Congress on July 27 in support of allocating the 10 MHz of the D Block portion of the 700 MHz band of spectrum directly to public safety to establish a 20 MHz wireless broadband network.
