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SunGard and IPL team up for development of police back-office systems
Two of the UK’s leading providers of IT systems for police forces, SunGard Public Sector and IPL, have teamed up to develop a joint solution for the police back-office systems of the future.
The new solution provides an architectural blueprint for IT systems to cover areas such as crime, intelligence, case and custody.
SunGard and IPL will submit their solution to the Eastern Region Police Force’s Athena project, a multi-million pound programme for the procurement of a state-of-the-art police IT system.
SunGard already supplies IT systems to the majority of UK police forces including Kent and Essex.
SunGard and IPL jointly developed Kent’s current core policing system (Genesis) and have subsequently supported and maintained it 24/7, since the mid 1990s.
IPL’s chief executive officer, Shaun Davey, commented: “IPL and SunGard have worked together on police IT systems for over 15 years. Both companies have similar business cultures and have developed a strong working relationship. We have complementary skills and experience so I’m very pleased that we are collaborating with SunGard on this vital public sector programme.”
Paul Jobbins, director at SunGard Public Sector, added: ‘This is an extremely important project and will form the foundation of future Police Back Office systems. It was therefore extremely important that SunGard should work with a complementary organisation like IPL.”
