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The long wait is finally over for Cornwall
After 15 years with the same incident command vehicle (ICU) the time had come for Cornwall’s Fire & Rescue Service to embrace the 21st century in the shape of two ICUs. Jose Sanchez de Muniain caught up with Communications Officer Ian Julian, Engineering & Procurement Officer Mike Clayton, and Primetech’s Henry Walker in Truro on the eve of the launch of the new technology, to find out what it will mean for the brigade and the people of Cornwall.
Engaging the community
A customer relationship management system in Kent is revolutionising the number of home fire safety visits that take place – and that means it is playing a crucial role in public safety.
Working on a digital platform
Airwave is no longer just a network provider synonymous with the TETRA system it supplies to blue-light services. While its radio network is still a core part of the service it offers, Airwave has developed a wider range of solutions that are part of a broader, more innovative approach, designed to deliver information digitally and enable its emergency service customers to solve the problems that they face on the front line.
Public sector could lead the way to cloud computing
The adoption of cloud computing is causing concerns around privacy/security in the public sector. The benefits are very compelling, especially as the Government looks to the private sector for proven techniques to drive down back office costs, make the most of new technology and use new management practices to encourage efficiency, writes Steve Smith, Managing Director at Pentura, a UK risk management service provider.
Welcome to the new era of prudent policing
In May the new chancellor George Osborne announced the much-expected plans for a £6.2bn spending cut. The resulting shockwave is likely to be felt across all public sector organisations for some years to come. However, whilst everyone waits anxiously to find out where the axe will fall, it is important to remember that maintaining and indeed improving service delivery and reduced expenditure are not incompatible bedfellows, writes Jamie Wilson at NICE Systems.
Searching for mobile gold
Mobile forensics is becoming widely established as a vital component of modern policing with forces across the country embracing the technology and increasingly “doing it for themselves” rather than relying on third party outsourcing – something that actually makes economic sense. And interestingly, the more complicated that mobile phones become the better a source of potentially incriminating data they are. Jose Sanchez de Muniain finds out what the fuss is about and uncovers how the latest smart phones are – literally – forensic gold mines.
