Unisys nabbed by NSW police in $6 million deal

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 18 June 2009 06:06

IT Industry - Deals

“In addition, digital imagery is pervasive in our society - from cameras in cell phones to closed circuit TV cameras – so we receive a large volume of imagery from the public. The Unisys solution will help us protect digital images and footage, while enabling investigators to access and use them more effectively.”

Unisys Asia Pacific managing partner, Allen Koehn said the NSW Police Force initiative reflected a common trend in law enforcement organisations worldwide in recognising the role that technology can play to provide new tools to help law enforcement and crime prevention – technology can help provide new capability on the front line.

“These digital images are critical pieces of evidence that must be both protected and shared with the law enforcement officers who need them to investigate and prosecute criminals. Our knowledge of the importance of imagery used as evidence has been fundamental to the design of the Unisys solution, which is based on a combination of our security, technology and applications expertise, as well as the insight of the Unisys team which includes professionals who have worked as law enforcement officers.”

Under the three-year contract, Unisys will provide systems integration services and customisation of the software user interface so that the solution allows the police force to meet its security and workflow requirements as defined by the Australian Guidelines for Digital Image Processes. The solution will run on eight Unisys ES3240L and 24 Unisys ES3215L Enterprise Servers.