Auros Delivers Police Information Net for Scotland
Case Study Company
Scottish Police
Company Background
The Scottish Police College, a part of the
SPSA
, provides expert
policing and support services to the country's eight police forces
and criminal justice community.
Business Need
To create an online version of a mission critical information
resource previously distributed across the Scottish Police forces
in CD format. The new Extranet enables production costs to be
reduced, information dissemination lag times to be almost entirely
removed and the content update and approval process made
significantly more efficient.
What Auros Did
Auros delivered an Extranet to be used across all Scottish
Police authorities. This Extranet provides a significantly
enhanced information resource capability to Scottish Police through
the deployment of
PINS
, ‘The Police
On-Line Information System’.
PINS
,
the new Extranet, is a major training resource and knowledge base
for the entire Scottish Police workforce, which was deployed and is
maintained by Auros in the highly secure British Police data
centre.
Auros’ remit encompassed full visual design, template development,
content audit and migration support, implementation, training and
ongoing support.
What They Thought
“For the development and deployment of the Police Information
Net for Scotland, it was important that the Scottish Police College
had a robust yet flexible
CMS
and an implementation
partner with the experience and the expertise to provide the best
from it. In Auros and Immediacy Auros found both."
After utilising the system for several months,
the following statement was made;
“12k Police officers are using PINS (Police
Information Net for Scotland) on an operational basis. A
very conservative estimate is that this Auros delivered
Extranet will save 1 hour per officer per month. This will
equate to a saving in the first 12 months of £3.4m.”
Derek Scott, Head of IT, Scottish Police College
URL
This is a secure Extranet that is not publicly available.