The vision for the police service information system is set out in the ACPO Information Systems Strategy of the Police Service (ISS4PS). It defines an integrated environment that will maximise the benefit of information management across police and other organisation boundaries.

Intrinsic to the strategy was the development of a Corporate Data Model (CorDM) that would cover all the operational data within the Police Service. The CorDM, developed in the Unified Modelling Language (UML), provides structure, definitions and standards for the data.

The Corporate XML (CorXML) provides an XML messaging implementation platform for the CorDM. It provides a set of standards, an XML Schema architecture for data interchange, an XML Schema representation of the CorDM and software tools to aid the development and alignment processes.

Current Status

The current version of the Corporate Data Model and CorXML, Version 7, was released in November 2007 and contains the restructuring of the model, particularly in the area of business activity and business information.

The latest release of CorXML includes a set of software tools and a new, streamlined development process.

Background

The first release of CorDM was in July 2003, covering PNC data, stop and search, license management, alarms, arrest and detention, call handling, case file management and court orders. 

Subsequent releases of CorDM have been issued every six months or so, extending the scope of the model to most areas of operational policing. Each CorDM release is supported by a release of the CorXML.

Further Information

For those people on the police network further information is made available via the following weblinks:

CorDm

CorXML