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Police new-builds to push technology demand
Police estates renewal will generate an ICT spend of at least £28m in England and Wales over the next three years.
Also in this issue:
A Force for the future - new report into the future of police technology
AIMTech Consulting Ltd, a ‘spin-off’ from the University of Leeds Business School, releases major new report “The Future of the Force: Police, Technology and Serving the Public”.
IIR launches Critical Communications Middle East
Congress and exhibition will take place 15-17 September 2013 at the JW Marriott Marquis, Dubai.
Insite dashboard launched by Airwave for control rooms
Features include pre-configured overview of talk-group occupancy for control room operators.
Take-home impacts from the ESMCP session held at B-APCO 2013
Voice and data over commercial mobile telephony networks - let's not rush in, writes British APCO Executive Director Tony Antoniou.
Dates for your diary: 25-26 September 2013, Emergency Services Show, NEC, Birmingham
The organisers of The Emergency Services Show are pleased to announce that the event will be moving to The NEC, Birmingham.
Surrey Police roll out innovative foreign-language custody solution
Collaboration with CommSOFT develops content for use specifically in custody suites and aims to reduce costs by 70%.
Cassidian awarded contract by UK Parliamentary ICT
Under the contract the company will provide a range of security services to the Houses of Parliament.
Facewatch chosen as standard equipment in winning Police car
Vauxhall cars wins ACPO future technology challenge.
Using Airwave - with confidence
How inter-agency communications sessions are benefiting Surrey’s public safety services.
Wiltshire and Dorset Fire and Rescue Services select Symphony Bluelight
Using the same gazetteer management software is expected to facilitate interoperability.
Isle of Man Fire and Rescue Service – case study
The world’s first joint control room is now using an upgraded alerting system developed in partnership with Multitone.
Read the latest issue of British APCO Journal online!
The latest issue of British APCO Journal reveals why the Cabinet Office’s PSN team wants to hear from you; takes a snapshot from a PSN Services Framework Supplier; how The South West FRS Secure Information Interchange achieved CoCo; why UNICORN is live in Surrey and Berkshire; LTE - critical-mission users are on the way to enjoying high-speed data.
FCS and Arqiva pioneer ‘fast-track’ accreditation for vehicle installers
FCS and Arqiva, the secure and critical managed communications services company, are pioneering a radical new learning and development programme which shrinks six months’ installer training into two days.
iPad winner announced by British APCO
Martin Edwards from Hytera Communications is the lucky winner!
Greater Manchester Police signs five-year multi-million pound contract with Steria to digitise interview recordings
The £3 million agreement will help reduce the large quantity of physical tape recordings built up by the force and is expected to result in considerable cost and efficiency savings.
Business Improvement Districts goes online with Facewatch to reduce city centre crime
Facewatch is being recommended by the British Bids Association to all BIDs across the UK as the best tool to reduce crime and make city centres safer.
G2M Technologies signs exclusive deal with Tough Tracker
Tough Tracker is the world’s first virtually indestructible satellite tracking device for the protection of assets.
The future of mobile policing
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Kelvin Connect embraces One Box’s challenging aim to integrate future technology into the police car.
Excelerate Technology Group begins offering Ka band satellite services
Ka band satellite services are in addition to company's comprehensive Ku band portfolio.
TETRA set to take centre stage with a year of record growth
Industry event in Paris to present complete capabilities of critical communications industry.
In-building solution for Scottish Ambulance Service
Airwave has collaborated with Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) to deploy an in-building coverage solution within record time at two ambulance stations.
Police ICT budgets 2013-14
Police ICT investment will swing toward networks and records management in 2013-14, according to a new breakdown of ICT spends.
Police Service of Northern Ireland Deploys 4,000 digital pens.
Technology to speed up process for digitised witness statements and provides 80% efficiency gains for the back office function.
Humberside Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) has selected Hull-based firm KC to install and manage a new communications network.
Gary Young KC with Richard Hannigan HFRS.
The Wide Area Network (WAN) will connect 32 sites across HFRS's area securely to each other and to its key computer applications, which will be hosted in KC’s data centre in Hull.
Dyfed-Powys Police signs five-year contract with Civica.
Civica will provide hosted Automatic Number Plate Recognition technologies.
New Sussex Fire Control Centre to use Resque 4i
Remsdaq’s new command and control system will serve East Sussex FRS and West Sussex FRS.
