The ict problems in the police have many causes, including a complex ict organisation, legacy systems and poor supervision of the ministry. Minister Opstelten believes that the introduction of a national police lead to success.
The General Court last Thursday, his report ICT Police 2010. The instance brought at the request of Minister Opstelten of Security and Justice, the ict problems of the police in map and came to a variety of causes and recommendations.
According to the court of auditors are the three most important necessities for enforcement, detection and capacity management in a fragmented entered, the user-friendliness moderate, and are important links between the systems.
Agents on the shop floor would not get sufficiently involved in the development and use would still be insufficient. “Among other things by use of alternative systems,” said the Court. Furthermore, the systems are outdated and “not future-proof’.
The management of the ict by the responsible korspchefs mentions the Court of auditors ‘problematic’ and in ten years there would not be much improved. They also could under the pressure of the Second Chamber and ministers too much on meeting deadlines focus, at the expense of the realization of user-friendly and usable systems.
The organization that the police in the field of ict should support, the vtsPN, there is, in the words of the Court of auditors “has not managed to make a healthy ict-organisation and professional to play on the various question to ask.” Also the ministry does not go unpunished: “The supervision from the ministry lap deficit was too much distance.” Originally it was 46 million euro budgeted for implementation of the ict systems, but the costs amounted to at least 70 million euros.
Minister Opstelten used the recommendations of the General Court now in order for the introduction of a national police advocate: “The conclusions from the report make clear that the ict used by the police now need to centrally be controlled. The introduction of the national police makes that possible.” He promises after the summer ‘harassment programs’ to the Second Room, containing proposals as to how he the problems in the ict-area to body wants to go.