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UK: All 43 police forces update ‘HOLMES’ system for major enquiries - Unisys to continue 18-year run as supplier for system after G-Cloud procurement

13 November 2014

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"Each individual police force signed a separate contract for the system, which includes new functions such as GIS mapping and visualisation. The system gives senior officers a “real time view of live operations” to help them decide how best to deploy police resources, Unisys said."

See: All 43 police forces update ‘HOLMES’ system for major enquiries - Unisys to continue 18-year run as supplier for system after G-Cloud procurement (Computer World, link)

And: Cross-police intelligence to be accessed by all forces (Police Oracle, link)

"'It can consume any file format meaning that, for example, flight manifests or telephone bills can be ingested into the system where they can be indexed automatically and immediately displayed on our visualiser capability and plotted onto mapping systems. This will help to demonstrate the links between people and people, people and objects, people and locations or any mix of these - all of which can help during a major incident.'" [emphasis added]

See also: Future of police HOLMES system driven by Cabinet Office buying influence (Government Computing, link)

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