PNN was originally designated by the Home Office as a replacement to the fixed network used to access the Police National Computer. The current version is known as PNN3 and has been operational since November 2006.

It is being used by all UK police forces and several other criminal justice organisations and agencies, including CPS, HMR&C, FSS, Scottish Government and NPIA. In addition, a particular service has been created for other organisations who provide a service to the police community, these include T-Mobile and Orange.

Benefits

• Cost savings through competition and benchmarking
• Common Communications Platform
• Scalable and flexible in order to support information exchange requirements of the police service
• Facilitates information and data sharing between police and criminal justice organisations
• Exploits changes in information technology that will benefit the business needs of the police service.

PNN3 Services

• National IP Network (CJX, xCJX and SCN)
• Telephony (Direct, Indirect and Casualty Bureau)
• Video Conferencing
• Web Hosting (Internet and Intranet)
• Secure Internet access
• LAN Interconnect
• Managed Bandwidth
• Messaging
• Remote Access (Restricted and Confidential)
• Managed Encryption
• Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam and Inappropriate Content Filtering

Who is responsible?

DCC Readhead is the current Senior Responsible Officer. The PNN User Committee (PUC), ACPO Information Technology User Group (ITAG), SPSA and National IT Projects were consulted on PNN3 requirements.