The Belgian federal police gets on it for more than twenty-year old software system of the local police. This will be around the 10 million euro investment in a new common system will be discarded.
The majority of the federal police forces, such as the shipping, railway and air traffic control, turns soon to the twenty-year-old system of local police: the Integrated System for the Local Police. That system does still work but is strongly deprecated. The software works with Word 6.0, a word processor from 1993.
The Belgian police had, after the merge of the local and federal police in 1998, also one software system to use. The plans for that software package, called Pol Office, since 2006 in development, but now it seems that the project has failed, reports The Standard. Since 2006, the government has a total 22,75 million euros will be invested in inter alia, computers, servers, and the development of the new software system. The 9.4 million euro was spent on consultations and the actual development, is now lost.