It may or not involve office stationery
Greater Manchester Police is struggling with a partial outage of a Capita-built computer system used by frontline officers to input information.
The PoliceWorks systems, which form part of the force's new iOPS (Integrated Police Operating System) – a £27m project undertaken by everyone's favourite outsourcer – went down after a planned IT upgrade at midnight on Monday. As a result, officers have not been able to input information into the police database.
But everything's fine, the force insists. "We have robust contingency plans that are successfully executed across the force to minimise disruptions," it said in a statement.
This, evidently, includes the cutting-edge technology appropriate to a world-class police force: pencil and paper. Robust indeed.
The force switched to the new computer syste ..
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
