Delivering Efficiency Savings across
Police Force Boundaries through
Collaboration in IT Transformation
Robert Leach
The Police ICT Company
The role of The Police ICT Company
is to help policing make better use of
ICT by:
What we
are here
for …
The Police ICT Company is limited
by guarantee and is wholly owned
by its members represented by
Police and Crime Commissioners
(PCCs), and their equivalents from
the wider policing organisations.
Create a bridge
between the
policing,
technological and
commercial worlds
Aim to cut the
costs of police ICT,
reduce duplication,
improve collaboration.
Help the service buy
ICT better, manage it
effectively and exploit
new opportunities
quickly.
Improve the
public’s experience
of dealing with the
police.
Improved public
experience through ...
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Better policing outcomes
ICT Strategy
ICT Common Standards
Enabling the 2025 Vision
Improving interoperability
Allowing collaboration
Enabling better &
more efficient use of
ICT through …
• Simpler open consolidated
commercial agreement and
frameworks
• Simpler and quicker procurement
• Creating benefits and efficiencies
both nationally and locally
• Cashable savings, cost avoidance,
eliminating waste, better demand
management
VALUE PROPOSITION
NPCC & IMORCC
IMORCC
Police ICT Company
Technical Design Authority
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Information Management & Operational
Requirements Coordination Committee
Security Design Authority
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Association of Police & Crime
Commissioners
Business Design Authority
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NPTC
PIAB
ORB
(National Police Technical Council)
(Police Information Assurance Board)
(Operational Requirements Board)
Gateway Delivery Team
POLICING PROGRAMMES
- a complex landscape
IMORCC
(Information Management &
Operational Requirements
Coordination Committee)
Police ICT Company
Security Design Authority
Technical Design Authority
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Association of Police
& Crime Commissioners
Business Design Authority
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NPTC
PIAB
ORB
(National Police Technical Council)
(Police Information Assurance Board)
(Operational Requirements Board)
Gateway Delivery Team
New/Charge - Technical Led
New/Charge - Security Led
Change Programmes
New/Charge - Business Led
IMORCC Portfolios
IMORCC
Portfolios
Home Office Programmes
National Law
Enforcement
Data Service
Emergency
Services
Network
BIOMETRICS
(Links into Joint
Format Biometric
Service)
Operational
Communications
in Policing
Data Protection, Fol
& Information Sharing
Geographical
Information Systems
PNC & PNC/Databases
Info Access Panel
Service & Management
of Police Information
Disclosure &
Safeguarding
Police National
Database/IMPACT
User Group
Information Assurance &
Public Services Network
Government Security
Classification
Operational
Requirements (Tactical
Board)
Digital Policing Portfolio
Public Contact
Investigations
& Intelligence
DIGITAL FIRST
(Criminal Justice
Service Interface)
National Enabling Programmes
Identity Access
Management
(Links to IAM-FS)
Common Platform
Security
for Policing
Operations Centre
(Links to Something)
for Policing
Example: Standards work
IMORCC/ORB
Governance & Direction
What are priorities; Manage & Drive Progress
NPTC Standards WG
Coordinate; Develop; Document; Issue; Update
Police ICT Company
Resources; Publish (to Forces & “Open” KH);
Communicate; Encourage Compliance; Manage
Forces/Suppliers
Adopt/Implement/Review
THE FUTURE
Company objectives for 2017/18:
Commercial and
Delivery Objective:
Strategy Objective:
Support the development of an ICT
Strategy to enable the delivery of the
Policing Vision 2025; the latter was
agreed and published jointly by the
Association of Police and Crime
Commissioners (APCC) and the
National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC).
Provide help and support to the
Company’s members so that they
secure value for money, remain
informed and understand the
Options they have to leverage
technology and combined buying
power across Law Enforcement;
act as a bridge to industry, creating
national ICT Sourcing Principles
and providing a delivery service
capability that can be
commissioned when engaging
In ICT Business Change.
Communication
Objective:
Communicate regularly with the
Company’s membership and the wider
law enforcement community; provide a
centre of ICT knowledge and expertise
to support the delivery of digital law
enforcement capabilities; identify
opportunities for collaboration and
stimulating innovation and industry
thinking.
OUR OBJECTIVES:
Will be informed by the Spend Analysis work,
currently underway with Price Waterhouse
Cooper.
COMMERCIAL WORK
IDIOM Commercialisation
• 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies
(CRCs) now manage all non-vulnerable
offenders in England & Wales
• CRCs paid by the MoJ to reduce re-offending.
• Two large CRC Companies committed to use
IDIOM – and pay for its’ use
• Others “in conversation’”
• Cannot get the level of detail from elsewhere
• Can manage their businesses better as a result
Adobe
Single Enterprise
Licence Agreement
(ELA), currently being
used by 26 forces,
with savings in excess
of £1mper annum to
date.
IBM i2 Agreement
Work begun by the Home Office, and
carried on by the Company, resulting
in one contract for Policing (instead of
122!) – and better value for all users
PentiP
• Contract due to be novated from Home
Office to the ICT Company by 30th June.
• A significant National contract, a fully
Managed Service used by all Forces.
• Will operate under the same terms and
conditions.
• Used to process Fixed Penalties Notices
and Conditional Offer Fixed Penalty Notices
• Opportunity to bring forward development
work to realise in-Force efficiency savings
ACHIEVEMENTS
2016/17
(a positive year)
Identified and delivered
commercial benefit to
the value of
£3.6m
Vmware
• Single Enterprise Licence
Agreement (ELA) entered into
• 34 forces signed up
• Saving: in excess of £1.5m
for first intake of participants
Review of Invoicing
Procurement Award
The Company’s commercial work awarded “Highly Commended”
trophy at Government Opportunities (GO) Excellence in Public
Procurement Awards 2016/17.
• Identified savings through invoice
consolidation across 12 suppliers.
• Based on CIPFA rates, shows potential
£2.6m savings if taken up nationally
The PWC Review of IT Spend
across Police Forces …
Helps inform our
future priorities
An ICT-specific spend
analysis across the 43
English and Welsh
police forces
Enables us to
leverage the scale
of business with
suppliers, for the
benefit of all
Looking at historical
spend and current /
future planned spend
Will help in supplier
negotiations on future
procurements
The Company will
look to coordinate
tender processes
for procuring on
behalf of all
Forces.
Police Reform and
Transformation Board
Police Reform and Transformation Board
(PRTB) - to oversee the work of modernising
and streamlining policing services.
The PRTB is working on the strategic
delivery of the Policing Vision 2025 by
making use of the Vision to:
• shape decisions around transformation
• guide how resources are used to keep
people safe
• provide effective, accessible, value for
money services.
Collaboration
Reducing Crime
Technology
Community
Public
Digital
Clear
Accountability
Develop
Transparent
Protecting Vulnerable
Cross Force
National
Partner
Deliver
Support
Reform
Effective
Change
People
Shared
Consistent
Service(s)
Challenge
Local
New
In Summary
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Emphasis on more consistent ways of doing things
Focus on Common Standards
Realisation of the necessity for a common infrastructure
Impetus: working together to get it right
Collaboration is alive and well….!