ISIS Officer and Citizen
The focus of ISIS is equip the 2015 police officer with enhanced information capabilities, to increase opportunities for citizens to access police services and provide opportunities for them to participate in the criminal justice process.
Digital Evidence Rapid advances in technology, availability of devices and the dying out of traditional evidence formats now demands that the police service responds and takes action to progress in a more joined up and innovative way. The ISIS Officer and Citizen Team are engaged with the police service across the UK and criminal justice partners on the use of digital evidence. Several key priority areas have been established for the digital evidence project to drive forward. These are digital interviewing, body worn video devices, digital imaging and digital storage solutions. Governance groups have been established with representatives from police forces, the NPIA and criminal justice partners to look at solutions to deliver for these areas. Over the next year, national framework agreements will be developed for digital interviews, body worn video equipment and systems. Police forces and criminal justice partners are engaged with the development of these national framework agreements. For more information about the digital evidence project, e-mail digitalevidence@npia.pnn.police.uk. Crime Mapping The ISIS Officer and Citizen work stream and the National Policing Improvement Agency's Citizen Focus Neighbourhood Policing team have worked together to deliver the new national crime map launched in October 2009. This new system enables the public to view crime statistics and neighbourhood policing information for all police forces on a single website www.maps.police.uk. The roll out of the crime mapping system meets with ISIS aims to improve the current policing experience for citizens by providing better access and availability to police information. The ISIS Blueprint The ISIS Officer and Citizen work stream engaged with over three hundred frontline police officers and staff across England and Wales in June 2009. This national engagement work helped to build knowledge around the operational challenges faced by police officers and police staff, capturing their requirements as end-users of existing and future IT and looking at potential solutions to address these challenges. As a result of the national engagement work over eighty user requirements were identified. These were prioritised and a top-ten list of requirements for delivery created as the 'ISIS Blueprint'. The Blueprint has been adopted as a set of business standards to be used to measure the relevance of existing and future programmes to front line service delivery. Identification Currently there are insufficient ways of identifying people when officers are outside of the police station. Existing methods of identifying a person can be difficult and very time consuming. The Officer and Citizen Team will look at ways to provide service-wide access to faster and more mobile ways of identifying suspects such as the provision of a single search capability and access to custody images. There are already a number of national developments and projects underway within the NPIA which support the principles of ISIS particularly in relation to identification, such as developing the National Custody Image Database and Project Midas. This project focuses on the development of mobile fingerprint devices that enable police officers to take fingerprints in an operational environment, away from the traditional custody suite.
The Officer and Citizen Team will continue to engage with front end users to ensure their requirements are captured and contributed to the ISIS portfolio planning process. The team will also monitor the impact of the ISIS Programme on service delivery and build and maintain positive, relevant working relationships with end users to ensure any issues or concerns they may have are effectively addressed. The Officer and Citizen work stream will focus on what happens now in terms of the current officer and citizen experience and establish how it will be improved by providing better access to and availability of information. Objectives For more information, please contact the ISIS Programme Team
