Information Systems Improvement Strategy (ISIS)
ISIS is the national, service wide strategy that will transform the way police information technology is developed, procured, implemented and managed. It will enable a move towards the use of common, compatible standards of technology.
ISIS aims to deliver: ISIS is founded on five principles:
The ISIS 'Blueprint' has been developed and this represents the top ten priorities for frontline police officers and staff. ISIS continues to provide direct support to police forces' regional collaboration groups to deliver programmes of work that move towards ISIS convergence. Delivery of new national framework agreements will enable forces to procure IT services more cost effectively. Examples of these framework agreements include i2 and Microsoft. A national crime mapping solution is now available which provides the public with their first national online view of the impact the police are making on reducing crime www.maps.police.uk. The ACPO chaired, tripartite ISIS Business Design Authority (BDA) has been established. This provides the policing business priorities and associated information requirements for the NPIA's Chief Information Officer (CIO) to deliver. The chair of the BDA is Chief Constable Sean Price of Cleveland Constabulary. ISIS will continue to work with Jan Berry the Independent Reducing Bureaucracy Advocate appointed by the Home Secretary to support her review of police bureaucracy. The report Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing was published in December 2009. The ISIS Operations Centre has been established by Deputy Chief Constable Roy Toner. Its purpose is to coordinate activities across the ISIS portfolio within the NPIA to increase the capacity of the agency to deliver on its commitments. For more information, contact isis.operationscentre@npia.pnn.police.uk The Champion/Challenger process will be implemented in April 2010. This will enable police forces to make decisions more effectively about using or buying a particular process, method, tool, technique or system. Decisions can be challenged in a constructive way. The ISIS digital evidence project has established governance groups to deliver solutions for digital evidence. These groups consist of representatives from police forces, NPIA and criminal justice partners. A number of national developments and projects are already underway which support the aims of ISIS. These are: The Mobile Information Programme - delivering 21st century mobile technology to frontline police officers and staff. The IMPACT programme's delivery of phase one of the Police National Database (PND), the first national intelligence sharing capability for policing.
The ISIS Plan outlines work to be delivered over 2009 and 2010. ISIS will continue to influence and align activities across the NPIA and police IT nationally, rationalising investment and increasing the focus for delivery to frontline police officers. Under the tripartite governance, the ISIS Business Design Authority (BDA) will be the focus for these investment decisions. ISIS has been mobilised by three work streams: Officer and Citizen Procurement Architecture and Convergence Following the publication of the government Green Paper From the Neighbourhood to the National: Policing our communities and Sir Ronnie Flanagan's review of police IT, the NPIA under its tripartite governance to establish two major programmes of work. The first is to create a common operating environment for police officers and staff to deliver Sir Ronnie Flanagan's recommendations on process improvements. The other is to seek innovative ways of using information more effectively to engage the public. The Green Paper sets out recommendations for the NPIA to identify improvements in the procurement of police IT systems to drive efficiencies. For more information, contact the ISIS Programme TeamKey Developments
How ISIS will be delivered
The focus of the ISIS programme is to equip the 2015 police officer and police staff with new and enhanced information capabilities, to increase opportunities for the 2015 citizen to access police services and provide opportunities for them to participate in the criminal justice process.
ISIS will drive improvements in efficiency and effectiveness. One of the key mechanisms to achieving these benefits will be improved procurement at both a national and local level.
This area focuses on the bringing together of information systems that will increasingly enable the police service to work together at all levels. This will result in police information being shared more easily and used both across policing and the wider criminal justice system.
