Welsh police force improves intelligence

Information management system offers 'quantum leap' in efficiency

South Wales Police (SWP) is to use intelligence software to cleanse data going into its new consolidated information management system.

The information system, Niche, will help the force comply with the Impact police national intelligence sharing programme.

Superintendant Richard Lewis of South Wales Police says the intelligence package, provided by SAS and operated by Atos Origin, will cleanse the data and convert it into a form that can be understood by the information management package.

'We have a number of legacy systems which we use to manage various operational functions, such as crime recording, custody, case preparation, etc,' Lewis said.

'As with any move of this kind we are coming across all kinds of legacy data and need data cleansing and de-duplication, which is what we are using this system for.'

The information management system is to be made operational in stages, beginning this month with the movement of the custody system.

All the stages will be complete by December this year, Lewis says.

'It will be a quantum leap in efficiency and effectiveness, and will provide better quality of service for the public when they ring in to us,' he said.

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