Webinar: Overview of the Power Platform enabled by the PDS blueprint
In this weeks #Wednesday #Webinar, we are going to take a deep dive into the capabilities enabled by the PDS blueprint and the Power Platform. The Power Platform includes Power Automate, Power Bi, Power Apps and Power Virtual Agents and is underpinned by a range of services including data connectors, AI builder and importantly the dataverse. […]
Webinar: Role based access control
The aim of this week’s Wednesday Webinar is to help forces progress with their IAM – (identity access management) journey. We will explain how leveraging the enabling technology which was delivered as part of their National Enabling Programme delivery, understanding how to use the services more effectively. This session will provide an overview of Role Based Access […]
PDS’s first Annual Report is out!
We’re excited to share our first PDS Annual Report 2021-22. During this time, we’ve brought new areas of business online, established several national teams, created a digital solutions catalogue, successfully completed six national programmes, and delivered £27 million in cashable and cost avoidance savings through our Commercial Services. We’re proud to have achieved so […]
Too Many Teams? – join our webinar to learn how to improve internal engagement
Over the past couple of years we have seen an incredible adoption on M365 and Teams, and it’s clear policing has now adopted the ‘hybrid’ way of working. But some colleagues are finding they are members of dozens of different Teams and Channels and it find it overwhelming or having difficultly in navigating all the different […]
How to use the accessibility tools built into M365 and Adobe.
Everyone is different and as policing strives to attract a more diverse workforce, we need to ensure that the tools we use and the information we produce and share is accessible. Similarly as the expectations on policing from our communities increases, in terms of ensuring our services are more accessible, we must ensure we think […]
Final Wednesday Webinar of 2022
Join us at midday on Wednesday 14th December 2022, for our final Wednesday Webinar of 2022. We will be joined by colleagues from the Humberside, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Norfolk and Suffolk forces who will share their achievements and experience from the last year. Over the 30 minute LIVE and interactive webinar, we celebrate the successes of forces in their local, […]
Digital poppy appeal – Results
For more than 100 years, the Royal British Legion have been raising funds through the Poppy Appeals to support those who have served and their families in their time of need. This year, the Police Digital Service supported the Poppy Appeal by creating a website allowing our policing colleagues, family, and friends to donate to […]
A new digital fingerprint capability for policing
The Transforming Forensics (TF) programme, hosted by the Police Digital Service (PDS), is progressing the development of the new national, digital fingerprint capability for policing. This is due for completion by December 2022. The capability is hosted on the PDS Xchange, a secure, national, cloud-based platform. PDS Xchange provides an end-to-end digital suite of tools […]
PDS announced as approved G-Cloud 13 supplier
The Police Digital Service (PDS) is an approved G-Cloud 13 supplier for: Consultancy services; Cyber security services; and Video Enabled Policing (VEP) G-Cloud 13 is a framework from Crown Commercial Services which gives public sector organisations access to cloud-based goods and services. Suppliers on the framework have to meet stringent standards and be able to […]
Supporting policing at the APCC & NPCC Partnership Summit
We were delighted to attend the APCC & NPCC Partnership Summit 2022: Cutting Crime, Building Confidence earlier this month. It has been important for us at PDS to meet in person with our policing colleagues to talk about how we can support digital transformation across forces to help officers and staff serve and protect our […]
WHAT’S NEW IN M365 AND TEAMS – HOW TO WORK SMARTER
Join us at midday on Wednesday 30th November, our webinar will focus on the everyday tools everyone in UK policing uses to connect with colleagues and manage information and demonstrate some useful functions that many users don’t realise can make their work easier and more effective. Over the 30 minute LIVE and interactive webinar, we […]
Embedding and managing Microsoft 365 in forces.
The transformation enabled by the National Enabling Programmes (NEP) and the delivery of the Microsoft 365 platform into policing was always just the start of the digital enabling journey for forces. The NEP successfully closed as a programme at the end of March and since then the Business Engagement Team have continued to support and […]