Building a more intelligent police force.In Humberside Humberside, former county, NE England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county was dissolved in 1996 and replaced by four unitary authorities: the East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North Lincolnshire, and North East Lincolnshire. , England England, the largest and most populous portion of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1991 pop. 46,382,050), 50,334 sq mi (130,365 sq km). It is bounded by Wales and the Irish Sea on the west and Scotland on the north. , the local police force is building a cutting-edge knowledge management environment for its officers. Humberside Police Humberside Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing an area covering parts of the East Riding of Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire. The Chief Constable is Tim Hollis QPM. , whose officers serve 900.000 citizens, recently signed a 1.7 million [pounds sterling] ($3 million U.S.) contract with Unisys to re-engineer and develop its core information technology (IT) and data warehouses. The force's new data warehouse will link more than 40 existing but disparate core databases into single knowledge bank, enabling Humberside Police to effectively manage and store information accessed by 3,000 officers across the region. The IT system overhaul is expected to be complete by the end of 2004 and will create a Web-based environment, allowing for a faster, more reliable data management system and an intelligence-led IT policing solution. The data will be available to all police officers, as forces across the United Kingdom will be able to access the warehouse. A disaster recovery service will ultimately house the data warehouse and all re engineered applications, providing backup support. |
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