The National Policing Improvement Authority has issued a
tender worth up to £600m for a database system to house the
Police National Database (PND).
The move follows the scrapping of Crisp, the £25m
Cross-Regional Information Sharing Project. Crisp was meant as
an interim step to the PND, but was beset by problems.
The need for the PND came after the
Bichard Inquiry into the murders of Jessica Chapman and Holly
Wells recommended that the police set up a national scheme that all
forces would have access to.
However, tender documents indicate that the system, which will
run for an initial eight years, may not be operational until
2010.
Plans to have the PND updated from a computerised court record
system are still unclear as the court system is only partly
implemented.
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