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Editor's Letter
The recent interim report by Sir Ronnie Flanagan into the Review of Policing, highlighted a number of issues surrounding the use of mobile data - and these are the very thoughts that our main feature addresses this month. In doing so, we also take a closer look at the benefits of being bearer independent and review BTP’s use of applications - identifying the officer time savings that are actually being made.
Mobile data will continue to be a much used, (and debated) means of communication yet should the applications be an evolution in the way the public safety sector works or a revolution? According to a recent poll we carried out on our web site a resounding 65% of you believe it should be evolution - which is perhaps not surprising since the technology can help evolve each service to not only make front line officers more visible, but provide business process efficiencies across all agencies if applications, terminals and bearers are chosen to meet both your current requirements and those of the immediate future. What is more 88% of you who took part in our online poll also believe that mobile data is helping to drive efficiency - our feature (see page 8) highlights exactly how.
