The police are going to thousands of additional BlackBerry smartphones, you need to buy the work of a patrol agent effective lwa nter. The application of smartphones would not be intended as an alternative to the failing core systems.
Several hundred agents are already using a BlackBerry during their straatsurveillances, but the police want this number to significantly expand. At the end of 2012, every day tens of thousands of agents with a smartphone from RIM their rounds on the street to perform. A study done by the national police AGENCY would have emerged that the aircraft of the company RIM has the best platform for politietoepassingen, because both the devices and the underlying systems should be of sufficiently strong encryption.
For the necessary 3g network, the police recently completed a two year contract signed with KPN. The provider promises that police officers on the mobile network during peak times priority is given, thanks to the service ‘prioriteitsbellen’. The gsm-mast ‘recognizes’ the mobile numbers and let them by, whereas the “normal” mobile users are not or only with difficulty connection be able to get. The trials that the police and KPN recently held, would have been successfully completed.
Jelle Egas, the president of the Council of Corps commanders, let Tweakers.net know that the accelerated roll-out of Blackberry’s at the Dutch police aims to patrol officers work more efficiently. According to Egas need a police officer, then less often to the office to enter the information, which he daily to an hour longer on the street can do its work. Tasks such as the control of personal data and on the to the office and send photos and video footage for analysis with the smartphone to be carried out. On the desk an ‘information specialist’ to all requests from patrol officers to view, if necessary, information search and playback to the appropriate agent.
Egas claims that the BlackBerry, despite the decision to accelerate the rollout, not to be seen as a response to the it-ills to the police. Thereby, he indicates the core systems, which, for example, be used for the handling of processes verbally and within the corps be seen as unwieldy and cumbersome. “This is not a fully alternative for our core systems. These systems need to be addressed, but during the refurbishment the shop has to be kept open,” said Egas.
The Dutch police is in spite of the internal ict problems ambitious when it comes to the roll-out of smartphones. Not only should every police officer in the long term with a BlackBerry are equipped, also considering the police to developed applications within its own App Store offering. If an agent have the appropriate authorization, he must new applications on his smartphone can add.