Airwave TETRA & 1500 Smartphones for Major Police Force in the UK
Users of the system, which include the Devon and Cornwall, Dyfed and Powys, Lothian and Borders and Surrey police forces, have seen a significant reduction in time spent on travel and inaccurate administration, which is increasing frontline visibility.
Computerweekly announced that the Derbyshire Constabulary has selected mobile network operator (MNO) O2 and mobile systems supplier Airwave to deliver smartphones and applications to 1,500 police officers as it tries to digitise existing paper-based processes.
According to the publicatino, the police force hopes that by replacing notebooks with smartphones, it will be able to dramatically reduce the amount of time that officers spend filling out forms, and return more office-based staff to frontline duties.
The devices will be fully equipped with Airwave’s Pronto suite of mobile applications, which enable electronic capture, use, storage and sharing of information while officers are in the field, all the way from first contact with victims, witnesses and offenders through to information sharing with the wider justice system.
