LONDON, August 12 /PRNewswire/ --     A partnership of leading IT service companies, led by Buying Solutions
Prime Contractor Infotech Enterprises and consortium partners GGP Systems and
Infoshare, have successfully bid for a competitive Tender issued by the
Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS), to provide a
centralised address gazetteer for police services across Scotland.

Lothian and Borders Police, who are representing the eight Scottish
Police Forces and the Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA), are
overseeing the implementation of the contract, which will see the creation,
implementation and use of a definitive national location gazetteer together
with Gazetteer Management Software and Web Services throughout police
services in Scotland. Infotech Enterprises as Prime Contractor will deliver
programme management and project support office services, working with GGP
Systems and Infoshare to deliver the contract over a three year term. The
contract was completed via the BuyingSolutions GISS framework

Deputy Chief Constable, Tom Halpin, ACPOS National Command and Control
Project Executive said: "This Contract is a key part of the wider ACPOS
business change programme and represents groundbreaking improvements for the
Scottish police service. The new system will help us to identify precise
locations and allocate the best equipped and nearest police patrol.''

This project will see the creation of a national gazetteer detailing
every property in addition to the location of police incidents in Scotland.
It will involve data from each of the eight Police Forces together with
additional detail from Point X's Points of Interest dataset and Experian's
QAS Names data being matched, cleansed and validated by Infoshare against a
Primary Dataset. Infoshare will use their ClearCore Product suite to create
this Primary Dataset from the One Scotland Gazetteer (OSG) which is made up
of address data from the 32 Scottish Councils, to provide an accurate
up-to-date database of land, property and locations.

Once created, the data will be accessed using advanced spatially enabled
Gazetteer Management Software from GGP Systems. Every force will be able to
search the gazetteer from the desktop system or remotely using web-enabled
devices. By providing real time access to the centralised data, the project
aims to improve intelligence for frontline service provision via integration
to the new national Control and Command system. This enables back office
analysts to have access to accurate incident records enabling detailed
analysis leading to successful resource allocation. This is key in crime
prevention, in tackling crime and in emergency planning. By using GGP Systems
Web enabled solution, Officers will also be able to provide feedback to the
centralised gazetteer; adding locations, noting exceptions and validating the
data with real world observations.

Contacts:

http://www.infotech-enterprises.com

http://www.ggpsystems.co.uk

http://www.infoshare-is.com