Devon & Cornwall Police and Dorset Police award corporate GIS contract to Cadcorp

The procurement includes Cadcorp support, training, and a range of related professional services.

Devon & Cornwall Police entered a strategic alliance with Dorset Police to improve delivery, resilience, and flexibility as well as to increase efficiency in over 30 administrative and operational business areas. By working more closely together as Devon & Cornwall Police and Dorset Police, the aim is to maintain effective policing over a vast geographical area while reducing costs. The partnership recognised the requirement to rationalise its mapping applications, improve efficiency, and support its goal of being the safest place in the country.

Devon & Cornwall Police, in partnership with Dorset Police, selected a wholly integrated corporate GIS from Cadcorp. SIS Desktop will provide them with the analytical capability required by UK police forces, including KDE hotspots, temporal analysis, routing analysis and Gi*. Both forces are committed to being more proactive and present in the community. It will integrate historical incident and crime data in SIS Desktop to create pre-emptive detailed patrol plans and improve the availability of specialist police teams.

SIS WebMap will be used in the control room to display resource locations and help improve officer safety and response times. As SIS WebMap is also available via mobile devices, officers on the beat will be able to view a variety of relevant data based on their current location.

Cadcorp extensive data format support will allow Devon & Cornwall Police and Dorset Police to integrate SIS Desktop and SIS WebMap with a range of applications, including Sopra Steria STORM command and control, police records management system NicheRMS, and the Idox Gazetteer Management System.

David Scott, ICT Applications Area Lead, Devon & Cornwall Police, commented: “The visual representation of data that the Cadcorp mapping system provides is dynamic, making information and location quick and easy to consume. Cadcorp corporate GIS and web mapping meets our requirements and provides best value for both our organisations. It will help us keep building a more transparent, proactive, sustainable and resilient service for our communities.”

Cadcorp software and services are used by Emergency Services for a wide range of GIS and web mapping applications. The software is instrumental in strategic and operational activities such as resource planning and performance reporting, risk analysis, and command and control. To find out more, visit the Cadcorp website.

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