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British Transport Police use GIS to tackle Crime
British Transport Police (BTP) is to work with Aligned Assets to link all its key systems including Command and Control into an open spatial environment with a single address database based upon the NLPG.
British Transport Police (BTP) is to work with Aligned Assets to link all its key systems including Command and Control into an open spatial environment with a single address database based upon the NLPG.
"This is the first major use of the NLPG by the emergency services in the UK. It will be a prime example of the benefits of open solutions bringing the best of breed working together to provide the best solution for the customer”, said Ian Rudd, Senior Sales Consultant for Aligned Assets.
Previously using multiple gazetteers, Aligned Assets’ Symphony Gazetteer effectively combines these into one sustainable, synchronised, manageable and integrated gazetteer, explained Ian. Because the organisation will be working with just one central system, the incidences of officers being sent to the wrong location or the use of inaccurate information is eliminated. This saves time, money, resources and in the cases of emergency situations, lives. It also means that information between different systems can be correlated and matched against a single address enabling efficient data management.
The BTP is divided into seven geographical regions, covering 88 police stations, with over 3000 staff looking after 10,000 miles of track. With this level of geographical diversity the Force estimates that over 90 per cent of their data has a spatial component (address and/or postcode, or x, y coordinates of crime and incident information) and therefore the potential to fully exploit a single GIS is tremendous.
Aligned Assets will be exhibiting at the BAPCO conference on the 23rd and 24th April 2008 at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London, on stand 526.
