Public Sector IT
December 2007
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Why was Police Portal scrapped?
14 Dec 2007 -
Scrapped Police Portal - one of its past successes
14 Dec 2007 -
Home Office agency scraps “world-first” online police system
14 Dec 2007
When any major IT project is cancelled it's rarely easy to establish exactly what has gone wrong and why. The customer often accuses the supplier of being late and delivering a system that's not ...
Apart from the use of the system during the London bombings, one of the lesser-known successes of the Police Portal was the part it played in the arrest and conviction of a 43-year-old man over ...
The National Policing Improvement Agency has scrapped a “world-first” secure, online crime reporting system which helped to reduce crime by linking the public and police forces across the UK. The ...
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More “facts” on HMRC’s missing CDs
13 Dec 2007 -
Missing CDs - HMRC's reply on whether it over-reacted
13 Dec 2007
It has emerged that the extra security protection on the missing child benefit CDs might have been nothing more than Winzip release 8. Interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on 21 November ...
HM Revenue and Customs has replied promptly to my question on whether it had over-reacted to the missing child benefit CDs by stopping its staff from sending faxes to employers of changes to ...