Adrian Gains, PA Consulting Group’s policing expert, comments on the roll-out of technology to police forces in the Financial Times Digital Business report. The article looks at the advantages and challenges of deploying technology to police forces.
Adrian suggests that a lack of standardisation is perhaps the biggest hurdle to improving policing through better access to data on the move: "One issue is that forces buy technologies that are not interoperable. It is off the shelf but off different shelves in different forces. A lot of money has been spent not having a single approach".
"I would start with frontline police officers and work out what problems they are trying to tackle. It sounds trite, but it’s not always done that way."
You can read the article in full here