Unisys nabbed by NSW police in $6 million deal

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 18 June 2009 07:06

IT Industry - Deals

Unisys has grabbed a $6 million three-year deal to provide maintenance services for an end-to-end digital imagery management system to the New South Wales police force.

Under the contract, Unisys will assist in the management and protection of around one million digital images which the police forensic teams take annually, as well as images and video footage the force receives from the public.

Detective Superintendent Ken Hughes, NSW police commander of the operational information agency, said today the system was designed to allow the police force to protect images as evidence while streamlining the process of managing, sharing and accessing them to save critical time in criminal investigations.

Superintendent Hughes said the NSW Police Force would be the first police force in Australia to implement a digital imagery system of this scale, “a solution able to manage and securely archive a large volume of images, stored in a searchable central repository, to make them quickly accessible for law enforcement purposes.”

“We are investing in the future of the NSW Police Force by providing officers with the necessary resources to do their job effectively using modern, smart policing strategies.

 “Moving to a digital-based imagery management system will save critical time in the law enforcement process. Officers can check the quality of their photography before leaving crime scenes, with no need to process and print photographic film. In addition, they will be able to quickly search, retrieve and distribute filed images.

“As Australia’s largest police organisation covering a diverse population of seven million people across more than 800,000 square kilometres, we deal with very high case loads so time efficiency is critical.
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