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NPIA awards contract for Police National Database
The contract to design, build deliver and operate the Police National Database (PND) has been awarded to a consortium led by Logica by the National policing Improvement Agency following a competitive procurement process. The contract is worth £75.6 million and will run over a seven-year period.
For the first time the PND will enable the Police Service in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and other government organisations that support public protection, to electronically share, access and search existing local intelligence and operational information nationally.
Chief Constable Peter Neyroud, Chief Executive of the NPIA said: “This is a significant milestone for the Agency, for policing and, ultimately, for the public. Currently, police forces are unable to search or access intelligence or other information that is held on another force’s local systems. The Police National Database will enable this by making available nationally copies of locally held information on suspects and criminals. This will help to make the public safer by improving the ability of the Police Service to share operational information, helping the police to stay one step ahead of the criminals.”
The initial phase, scheduled to be rolled out in 2010, will bring together copies of data from five operational areas of policing - custody, crime, intelligence, child abuse and domestic abuse in to one central system - and will support the following areas of policing:
- Protecting children and vulnerable adults, by being better able to understand the risk they are facing, and by more thorough vetting of people in positions of responsibility and trust;
- Understanding the threat posed by terrorism of whatever nature, and helping to reduce the risk of terrorist activity; and
- Disrupting and preventing major, serious and organised crime.
The NPIA stressed that delivering the PND is not simply about the delivery of the IT but also the business change enabled by IT and is a complex process, ensuring not just that the right IT capabilities are delivered but also that the data are ready and the necessary business changes are in place. This requires time and careful planning if the Police Service is to realise the benefits available from the PND.
