The Police Digital Service (PDS) is the UK organisation responsible for coordinating, developing, delivering, and managing digital services and solutions that enable UK policing to safely harness technology to improve public safety.
Funded by policing and the Home Office, PDS works with law enforcement organisations, private industry, charities, public bodies, and government to deliver digital services and solutions with policing, for policing.
Ours is a team of experts in commercial services, technical assurance, data, digital transformation and innovation, with unique experience in policing and national programme delivery. Together with our public and private sector colleagues, we are driving several ‘in-flight’ national programmes.
The PDS is the delivery vehicle for the National Policing Digital Strategy.
Our Vision
By 2030, the Police Digital Service will deliver the capabilities to create a more digitally enhanced police service whose workforce can more fully exploit data and technology to inform improved decision-making, strengthen operational effectiveness, drive value for money and most importantly better safeguard and protect the public.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to provide a centre of expertise to design, create and deliver national digital and information systems for UK law enforcement, efficiently and effectively, meeting operational and strategic objectives.
Our Senior Leadership Team
Tony Eastaugh CBE
Chief executive officer
Tony Eastaugh CBE joins the Police Digital Service as Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Tony brings a wealth of experience from his previous roles, including Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner for England & Wales and Director General at the Home Office.
As Interim CEO, Tony will steer PDS using his extensive background in law enforcement, policing, and technology. He will focus on overseeing the organisation’s corporate strategy and business plan while ensuring effective collaboration with policing and other key stakeholders.
Ed Preece
Interim Chief Operating Officer
David Bowen
Interim Deputy CEO
Lynne Spiers
Head of Strategic Governance & Company Secretary
Phil Smith
Finance Director
Jon Witt
Strategic engagement officer (Support)
Our Management Team
David Angell
Data protection officer
Dave Callow
Head of Operational Services
Gemma Morris
Security Manager
Kate Boyle
Head of Data Services
Sarah Wolf
Head of corporate affairs
Nathan Woodley
Corporate Risk and Compliance Manager
Delivering the National Policing Digital Strategy
The National Policing Digital Strategy – Police Digital Service considers the internal and external pressures facing UK policing and presents five key digital ambitions, each with a set of digital priorities to guide focus and investment.
Below, we summarise how the Police Digital Service is working to help police forces and law enforcement organisations achieve these ambitions.
1. Protecting the public
This ambition draws all other ambitions with the Peelian principle that ‘the basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.’ It reinforces the fundamental duty of policing to act in the public interest, ensuring the safety and well-being of all communities. We will harness the power of digital to proactively identify and manage the risk of harm to better protect the public. By delivering earlier, more precise and targeted preventative and reactive policing approaches, utilised by neighbourhood and specialist police teams, we can reduce the impact and likelihood of offending on the public.
2. Seamless citizen experience
We will provide citizen-centric digital services, offering the public a choice of accessible engagement options while responsibly connecting data across departments and organisations. Enhancing our intelligence and building public trust through our visible commitment to protecting the public and their data rights.
3. Enabling officers and staff through digital
We will equip our entire team, from leaders to front-line staff, with the necessary digital knowledge, skills, and tools to enhance their confidence, competence, and productivity in using digital solutions to proactively solve complex challenges.
4. Collaborating with the private sector
We will collaborate with the private sector to ensure they have a role in enhancing public safety, through securing effective contracts that deliver timely and budget-compliant solutions. Through early engagement in problem definition and solving, we will leverage industry expertise to address issues innovatively using data and technology. This approach will support policing to be an ‘intelligent digital customer’ by lowering barriers to enter the market and avoiding risk of ‘vendor lock-in’ through use of key artefacts, such as the Police Industry Charter.
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5. Embedding a whole public system approach
We will promote openness and alignment between policing and public sector partners. By integrating local digital needs with national digital requirements, we will empower grass roots innovation to successfully scale at pace, to provide valuable data insights and digital tools to help us protect the public with partner organisations.