Norfolk Constabulary has gone to Fujitsu Services for the
deployment of an Operational
Data Warehouse (ODW) to deliver more flexible data management
and cost savings.
Data within the police force will now be combined and linked in
one repository. Norfolk said the new system would be
more practical for front line policing, allowing the force to
carry out many activities that cannot currently be achieved.
The new system will address the requirements of the Management
of Police Information (MoPI) standards, and support the feeding of
information into the Police National Database.
Fujitsu is working with SAS Software and Amadeus Software on the
Norfolk project to combat the common range of problems caused by
multiple information systems with different collection and storage
techniques.
In the first phase, Norfolk Constabulary has already been able
to bring together information from its crime and HR systems in
order to improve its ability to be able to provide annual Home
Office data returns.
Future phases will enable the force to make links between
external events such as economic trends and population movements to
help to predict patterns of crime.