- Regional deployment sees 3,000 officers
using Airwave’s mobile Pronto e-notebook and suite of
applications
- Officers save up to two hours of admin
time per shift, leading to more visible and effective policing
- Surrey Police report efficiency savings
worth up to £7 million
- A third all of Great Britain’s police
forces are now using Pronto to replace time-intensive paper-based
frontline reporting
Airwave Solutions Limited, a Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI)
company, in partnership with O2 today announce that over 3,000
frontline Surrey Police and Sussex Police officers are now using
specialist mobile technology to improve frontline policing and
reporting.
The new joint project enables 1,250 officers at Surrey Police
and 1,750 at Sussex Police to replace paper-based activities such
as vehicle registration checks, speeding tickets, and tests for the
influence of drugs or alcohol on drivers with intuitive digital
forms on mobile devices. Both forces have seen substantial time and
cost saving benefits. Officers have saved up to two hours per
shift, time that can now be better spent policing the streets and
supporting the public. This modernisation of processes has enabled
Surrey Police to cut costs by £7 million.
The new extended regional deployment follows a successful six
year partnership with Surrey Police that has seen the Pronto
e-notebook and suite of software applications deployed to frontline
offers across both police forces. Pronto is a complete digital
replacement for an officer's paper notebook, operational processes
and forms. It provides remote, mobile access to all key policing
systems, ensuring officers can capture, reuse and validate
information on the frontline while reducing back office bureaucracy
and inefficiency.
Before Pronto, a single activity such as writing out a ticket
would take back-office staff over four minutes to transfer
paper-based notes onto a force’s system – now that process takes
seconds as all data captured on devices is synchronised
automatically.
As well as productivity benefits, Pronto is enabling greater
sharing of information and collaboration between the two forces.
Officers can access national police systems and local databases
across the two forces, such as the Records Management Systems
(Niche) on the move. This allows officers to work together at an
incident or crime scene, sharing data and resources in real-time
rather than having to return to the station or have back-office
staff locate and then upload relevant information.
This new regional deployment brings the total number of forces
using Pronto to 16 (33 percent of all forces in the UK).
Discussing the project Gavin Stephens, Deputy Chief
Constable at Surrey Police said: “We are seeing the beginnings
of a fully digitised Criminal Justice System – from incident to
court room. What’s aspirational in digital policing and
collaboration between forces in some parts of the country is
reality here.”
“The deployment of Pronto has meant we’ve been able to move
officers away from desks and back onto the frontline, the best
place to pursue offenders and detect crime, protect vulnerable
people, and prevent crime and disorder. Technology has helped us
become more accessible and visible to the public we serve and it is
playing an increasingly vital role in our mission to make the
region as safe as it can possibly be,” said Inspector Shane
Baker at Sussex Police.
Billy D’Arcy, Managing Director, Enterprise and Public sector
business at O2 UK said: “As policing budgets continue to be
reduced, using resources as effectively as possible is a challenge
that every UK police force is being asked to meet. We are very glad
to have delivered, in conjunction with our partner Airwave, a
solution that has helped both Surrey Police and Sussex Police
improve efficiencies while increasing their citizen engagement. By
listening to what information was needed to optimise an officer’s
time on the frontline we have been able to bring connectivity,
devices and information sources together in a way that keeps
officers visible within the communities as well as improving speed,
accuracy and ultimately the service they are able to deliver across
those communities.”
Phil Jefferson, MSSSI Vice President, Sales and Service UK
and Ireland at Motorola Solutions, said: “We are delighted to
partner with O2 for this regional deployment of Pronto. Surrey
Police was one of the first forces to embrace Pronto and over the
past six years we’ve worked closely with their officers to evolve
the software to make it as useful and usable as possible. Today,
forces like Surrey Police and Sussex Police are able to collaborate
effectively together, and more than a third of UK police forces now
reap the rewards of Pronto, driving widespread efficiency savings,
something that’s more important than ever in this time of tight
budgets and public demand for greater visibility.”
Other benefits both forces now receive include: increased server
capacity, improved disaster recovery, around-the-clock monitoring
of key systems, and common reporting standards. A direct link
between Pronto and the two forces’ records management systems will
drive frontline productivity keeping officers on the streets.
About Airwave Solutions Limited
Airwave, a Motorola Solutions company, delivers mission critical
voice and data communications to organisations that provide vital
public services – the police, fire and ambulance services, local
authorities, health, utilities and transport providers.
Airwave has invested £1.4 billion to date to create the Airwave
Network, which was purpose built to meet the needs of emergency
services. The Network is resilient, secure, covers 99% of Great
Britain’s landmass and is interoperable, meaning that for the first
time members of different public service organisations can
communicate with one another.
The Airwave Network is the first public service network in the
world to offer secure, seamlessly integrated communications between
emergency services and other emergency responders, and has made
Great Britain a world leader in the delivery of critical
communications services.
Airwave continuously evolves to deliver innovation through a
clear technology roadmap, ensuring that Great Britain’s emergency
services have access to world-leading capabilities. More than a
third of Great Britain’s police forces have taken a significant
step towards paperless policing by equipping frontline police
officers with Airwave’s specialised mobile data and applications
technology.
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About Pronto
The Pronto e-notebook and its suite of applications from Airwave
deliver comprehensive and flexible mobile information solutions to
sixteen police forces across the UK. Designed to help customers
meet their Digital First agendas and supporting the National Vision
for Policing, Pronto enables the online or offline electronic
capture, use, storage and sharing of information, from initial
contact with victims, witnesses and offenders through to
information sharing with partners in the wider Criminal Justice
System (CJS). Putting digital technology in the hands of officers
transforms core business processes. Instead of spending hours on
administrative tasks, officers can fill in forms and submit them at
the scene, enabling them to spend less time in the office and
longer policing the community.
About O2
O2 is the commercial brand of Telefónica UK Limited and is a
leading digital communications company with the highest customer
satisfaction for any mobile provider according to Ofcom. With
over 25 million customers, O2 runs 2G, 3G and 4G networks across
the UK, as well as operating O2 Wifi and owning half of Tesco
Mobile. O2 has over 450 retail stores and sponsors The O2, O2
Academy venues and England Rugby. Read more about O2
at www.o2.co.uk/news.
Telefónica UK Limited is registered in England and Wales.
Registration number: 1743099. Its registered office is at: 260 Bath
Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4DX, United Kingdom.
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