TheCriminal
Justice Information Technology (CJIT)project
has reached a milestone with the start of a pilot of an information
sharing portal.
Progress, as it is known, is a portal accessible from the
internet, which provides secure network access to enable judges to
post their direction before court hearings. The Crown Prosecution
Service is able to respond to these directions via a secure
internet connection.
David Goodman, head of service management for Criminal Justice
Information Technology (CJIT), said, "Progress is the first
application on the portal." Through the portal, he said users will
eventually be able to analyse criminal data by being able to share
data drawn from different government agencies.
For the portal to work the CJIT has needed to create a data hub
known as
the Exchange, which uses a messaging infrastructure to provide
shared services through which criminal justice organisations and
other agencies can share information and manage cases.
Addressing delegates at the itSMF conference, Goodman said he
needed to set up a Programme Board, comprising the CIOs of the
agencies the Exchange would connect into, in order to agree and
define service level agreements.
The CJIT programme is one of 19 "mission critical" IT projects
for the government and works closely with all the other government
IT programmes to achieve delivery. All of the programmes sit within
the national strategy for e-government
"
Transformational Government".
The overall goal of these projects is to provide technology and
services designed around the needs of the citizen and allow users
to share services and information across the public sector to
achieve efficiency and reduce duplication for staff and the
public.