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Regional deployment sees 3,000 officers using Airwave’s mobile Pronto
e-notebook and suite of applications
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Officers save up to two hours of admin time per shift, leading to more
visible and effective policing
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Surrey Police report efficiency savings worth up to £7 million
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A third all of Great Britain’s police forces are now using Pronto to
replace time-intensive paper-based frontline reporting
BASINGSTOKE, England -- (Business Wire)
Airwave Solutions Limited, a Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) company, in
partnership with O2 today announce that over 3,000 frontline Surrey
Police and Sussex Police officers are now using specialist mobile
technology to improve frontline policing and reporting.
The new joint project enables 1,250 officers at Surrey Police and 1,750
at Sussex Police to replace paper-based activities such as vehicle
registration checks, speeding tickets, and tests for the influence of
drugs or alcohol on drivers with intuitive digital forms on mobile
devices. Both forces have seen substantial time and cost saving
benefits. Officers have saved up to two hours per shift, time that can
now be better spent policing the streets and supporting the public. This
modernisation of processes has enabled Surrey Police to cut costs by £7
million.
The new extended regional deployment follows a successful six year
partnership with Surrey Police that has seen the Pronto e-notebook and
suite of software applications deployed to frontline offers across both
police forces. Pronto is a complete digital replacement for an officer's
paper notebook, operational processes and forms. It provides remote,
mobile access to all key policing systems, ensuring officers can
capture, reuse and validate information on the frontline while reducing
back office bureaucracy and inefficiency.
Before Pronto, a single activity such as writing out a ticket would take
back-office staff over four minutes to transfer paper-based notes onto a
force’s system – now that process takes seconds as all data captured on
devices is synchronised automatically.
As well as productivity benefits, Pronto is enabling greater sharing of
information and collaboration between the two forces. Officers can
access national police systems and local databases across the two
forces, such as the Records Management Systems (Niche) on the move. This
allows officers to work together at an incident or crime scene, sharing
data and resources in real-time rather than having to return to the
station or have back-office staff locate and then upload relevant
information.
This new regional deployment brings the total number of forces using
Pronto to 16 (33 percent of all forces in the UK).
Discussing the project Gavin Stephens, Deputy Chief Constable at
Surrey Police said: “We are seeing the beginnings of a fully digitised
Criminal Justice System – from incident to court room. What’s
aspirational in digital policing and collaboration between forces in
some parts of the country is reality here.”
“The deployment of Pronto has meant we’ve been able to move officers
away from desks and back onto the frontline, the best place to pursue
offenders and detect crime, protect vulnerable people, and prevent crime
and disorder. Technology has helped us become more accessible and
visible to the public we serve and it is playing an increasingly vital
role in our mission to make the region as safe as it can possibly be,”
said Inspector Shane Baker at Sussex Police.
Billy D’Arcy, Managing Director, Enterprise and Public sector
business at O2 UK said: “As policing budgets continue to be reduced,
using resources as effectively as possible is a challenge that every UK
police force is being asked to meet. We are very glad to have delivered,
in conjunction with our partner Airwave, a solution that has helped both
Surrey Police and Sussex Police improve efficiencies while increasing
their citizen engagement. By listening to what information was needed to
optimise an officer’s time on the frontline we have been able to bring
connectivity, devices and information sources together in a way that
keeps officers visible within the communities as well as improving
speed, accuracy and ultimately the service they are able to deliver
across those communities.”
Phil Jefferson, MSSSI Vice President, Sales and Service UK and
Ireland at Motorola Solutions, said: “We are delighted to partner
with O2 for this regional deployment of Pronto. Surrey Police was one of
the first forces to embrace Pronto and over the past six years we’ve
worked closely with their officers to evolve the software to make it as
useful and usable as possible. Today, forces like Surrey Police and
Sussex Police are able to collaborate effectively together, and more
than a third of UK police forces now reap the rewards of Pronto, driving
widespread efficiency savings, something that’s more important than ever
in this time of tight budgets and public demand for greater visibility.”
Other benefits both forces now receive include: increased server
capacity, improved disaster recovery, around-the-clock monitoring of key
systems, and common reporting standards. A direct link between Pronto
and the two forces’ records management systems will drive frontline
productivity keeping officers on the streets.
About Airwave Solutions Limited
Airwave, a Motorola Solutions company, delivers mission critical voice
and data communications to organisations that provide vital public
services – the police, fire and ambulance services, local authorities,
health, utilities and transport providers.
Airwave has invested £1.4 billion to date to create the Airwave Network,
which was purpose built to meet the needs of emergency services. The
Network is resilient, secure, covers 99% of Great Britain’s landmass and
is interoperable, meaning that for the first time members of different
public service organisations can communicate with one another.
The Airwave Network is the first public service network in the world to
offer secure, seamlessly integrated communications between emergency
services and other emergency responders, and has made Great Britain a
world leader in the delivery of critical communications services.
Airwave continuously evolves to deliver innovation through a clear
technology roadmap, ensuring that Great Britain’s emergency services
have access to world-leading capabilities. More than a third of Great
Britain’s police forces have taken a significant step towards paperless
policing by equipping frontline police officers with Airwave’s
specialised mobile data and applications technology.
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About Pronto
The Pronto e-notebook and its suite of applications from Airwave deliver
comprehensive and flexible mobile information solutions to sixteen
police forces across the UK. Designed to help customers meet their
Digital First agendas and supporting the National Vision for Policing,
Pronto enables the online or offline electronic capture, use, storage
and sharing of information, from initial contact with victims, witnesses
and offenders through to information sharing with partners in the wider
Criminal Justice System (CJS). Putting digital technology in the hands
of officers transforms core business processes. Instead of spending
hours on administrative tasks, officers can fill in forms and submit
them at the scene, enabling them to spend less time in the office and
longer policing the community.
About O2
O2 is the commercial brand of Telefónica UK Limited and is a leading
digital communications company with the highest customer satisfaction
for any mobile provider according
to Ofcom. With over 25 million customers, O2 runs 2G, 3G and 4G
networks across the UK, as well as operating O2 Wifi and owning half of
Tesco Mobile. O2 has over 450 retail stores and sponsors The O2, O2
Academy venues and England Rugby. Read more about O2 at www.o2.co.uk/news.
Telefónica UK Limited is registered in England and Wales. Registration
number: 1743099. Its registered office is at: 260 Bath Road, Slough,
Berkshire, SL1 4DX, United Kingdom.
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