Ailsa Beaton has been CIO at the Metropolitan Police for 12 years. She tells Computing how the organisation's information systems have changed in that time - and how they may change in the future
Until the 1980s or so, the information demands of policing were pretty straightforward. There was a police national computer (PNC) for storing and retrieving information on criminal records - acces...
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