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Microsoft Seminars at ACPO - APA 2008
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Thursday 26th June
 
 
10:00 - Secure Information Exchange

A major responsibility of civil government is the protection of the population against threats from Terrorism, Disease and Natural Disasters. A cornerstone of Information Security was always the Need to Know principle, but as a result of systematic failures many organisations have adopted a Need to Share principle where the default information management policy is to share all information and intelligence. Need to Share can be just as dangerous as Need to Know. Secure Information Exchange is about removing the security barriers to information flow, but in a way that doesn’t increase the risk to the nation or its citizens.
 
Kieron Sambrook-Smith: Sales and Marketing Director , Boldon James
 
Target Audience: Decision makers and influencers of information technology and communications solutions in Policing, Justice and National Security.
 
803 kb pdf
 
 
 
11:00 - Microsoft Keynote - Emerging Technology: Threat or Opportunity?
 
The increasingly competitive environment in internet applications has reduced the “time to market” to the point where even industry observers find it hard to keep up. Assessing the impact of new technologies is challenging, and responding to the opportunity or threat presented is not an area of strength for governments. Yet, these emerging “off the shelf” technologies have the potential to significantly change the way police operations are conducted, some at no additional cost.
 
Bob Hayes will demonstrate a suite of technologies which could transform the way police operations are planned, conducted and debriefed.  Bob will then discuss the opportunities that exist for the police service to better engage with industry to assess the impact of emerging technologies.

 

Bob Hayes, UK Director, The Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments

 

Target Audience: Command level police officers & those concerned with operational effectiveness and best value in policing.

 

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194 kb pdf

 
 
12:00 - The Unifying Power of Software –
Building Connections in Policing, Justice and National Security
 
When multiple civil and national agencies respond to and converge on an incident or operational location, the need for communications interoperability is critical. Civil agencies and their military colleagues typically deploy disparate communications technologies that require local bridging and patching in order to facilitate transparent communication between land mobile radio (LMR), cell phones and satellite phones, and office based telephony and computers. Recognizing that the best approach to solving the complexities of communications interoperability is to use software to unify these multiple, diverse communications technologies, Twisted Pair Solution's WAVE technology enables users to build and operate secure, highly scalable communications solutions in the world's most demanding IT environments.
 
Mark Baker, Director of Systems Engineering EMEA, Twisted Pair Solutions

Target Audience: Decision makers and influencers of communications technology and communications solutions in Policing, Justice and National Security.
 
1039 kb pdf
 
 
13:00 - Improving Police Performance using Geographic Information
 
This seminar examines the benefits of implementing current Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology in a Policing environment. Most Police Forces have delivered “digital mapping” to their control rooms and analyst communities, however these digital mapping solutions have failed to deliver the business benefits that they originally promised. GIS differs significantly from digital mapping in that it provides a platform to collect, combine, visualise, analyse, and share geographic information, rather than just providing dots-on-maps, or crime hotspots. This use of GIS as an enabling technology within existing business systems will enable forces to refine business processes and deliver the real efficiency gains that digital mapping products have failed to deliver.
 
Simon Cottingham, Public Safety Strategist, ESRI
 
Target Audience: Directors of Intelligence, Directors of Force Performance, Directors of Business Change, Directors of IT, BCU Commanders.
 
 
14:00 - Microsoft Keynote - Need to Know to Need to Share - Intelligence and Investigation Collaboration and Information Sharing
 
The challenges facing Law Enforcement organisations around the world has intensified with dramatic changes in terms of the globalisation, patterns and types of crime and terrorism. The need to access, analyse, present and share diverse sets of information within and between police forces and other law enforcement agencies in a timely manner is critical to prevent and combat organised and cross border crime. The increased use of the internet, mobile phones and other technologies by criminals needs to be countered by innovative solutions and approaches to enable law enforcement to stay ahead. In collaboration with Microsoft, a number of law enforcement, internal security organisations and partners have developed collaborative and information sharing solution and knowhow toolkits to aid Intelligence and Investigations.

Andrew Hawkins & Wayne Phillips, WW Solution Leads for Defence, Public Safety & Justice, Microsoft Corporation, Public Sector HQ
Target Audience: Operational users, decision makers and influencers of intelligence and investigation operations and information technology solutions in Law Enforcement and related Intelligence communities. 
 
3755 kb pdf
 
 
 
15:00 - Leveraging Technology for Improved Disaster or Incident Response
 
Response starts local and ends local. Where ever you are in the world, this is a constant in every event or emergency. This session will showcase next-generation technologies that are simple, daily use, tactical, operational tools that support individual agencies or Unified Command activities. This improves the ability to build ‘playbooks’ for managing events, simplifies plan creation, and can track resources and ‘costs’ associated with responding for incidents of any size, scale or type. Built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and incorporating Incident Command Structure, the solution is easy to learn and understand.

Robert Wolf, President/CEO, E-Sponder
 
Target Audience: Decision makers and influencers of information technology and communications solutions in Policing, Justice and National Security. 
 
883 kb pdf