Scottish Police Authority issues tender for Police Scotland integrated communications system
The Scottish Police Authority has published a tender under which it plans to procure a £4.6m National Integrated Communication Control System (ICCS) for Police Scotland. The procurement will provide a single National ICCS platform to standardise technology and process. The move, for the force’s Contact, Command and Control (C3) division, is intended to help develop a public engagement and access strategy as part of the planned Policing 2026 change portfolio with a goal of ensuring that C3 delivers at the first point of contact, resolving enquiries in the most appropriate manner.
The new system will provide critical operational communication functions, integrating the voice and data protocols between the force’s radio communications, telephony communications and Command and Control application for the management of frontline response policing. The solution, the tender says, must be able to integrate with Airwave Radio Communications, the existing communications system used by the police and rescue services; Airwave’s successor, the forthcoming, 4G based Home Office ESN programme, being delivered by the ESMCP and Police Scotland’s Service Centre telephony platform and National Unified Communications, as well as Command & Control applications.
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