Six cost effective initiatives are being planned and will aim to deliver £200 million worth of savings by 2014 under ISIS. These are awaiting formal ratification.

The six initiatives include:

• National Infrastructure - a single, national IT infrastructure provided as a common service.
• Convergence of business applications to create more simple and cost effective information systems as seen in the Eastern region.
• Decommissioning of force legacy systems - the Police National Database (PND) will replace local intelligence systems reducing operating costs and improving the national intelligence picture for officers.
• Decommissioning national legacy systems - looking at some services provided by national legacy systems to move to a national capability.
• Restructure of ICT departments to create a mix of local, regional and national ICT support for nationally delivered services.
• National Information Communications Technology (ICT) procurement, enabling forces to procure all their ICT needs through a central process and national frameworks.

The initiatives will help forces benefit from savings through a more cohesive and standardised approach to the way police buy and use IT.

ISIS is already delivering £25 million worth of savings for the police service this year.

For more information, contact the ISIS Programme Team