Making digital policing a reality

Making digital policing a reality When to bespoke and when to commoditise – driving benefit from core commonality. The Police Chiefs Council’s National Enabling Programmes and the Police ICT Company are working together to drive forward the use of digital and commodity technologies in support of the Policing Vision 2025. One interesting focus of this work is on harnessing commodity technologies to meet common needs – rather than the disparate bespoke approach of the past. UKAuthority publisher, Helen Olsen Bedford, puts the questions to the UKA Live expert panel: Jules Donald – CIO Essex & Kent Police Richard Thwaite – NPCC lead on IT Landscape Mapping Simon Parr – Business Change Lead at the National Enabling Programmes (ex-chief constable, Cambridgeshire Constabulary) Chris Doutney – Executive Director, Civica Digital Learn more about making digital policing a reality at www.civica.com/digital