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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Wednesday 16th November, we will be joined by experts from Adobe who will share how the using the built-in tools that are already available to all colleagues in police forces. Once you see how easily and robustly Acrobat’s tools work, colleagues will be able more effectively and efficiently freeing up time to focus on […]
Our thanks to those who have already participated in our digital Poppy Appeal in support of the Royal British Legion and Armed Forces! For those who haven’t had a chance to join our digital Poppy Appeal this year, there’s still time. You can participate in five easy steps: Visit the website: https://bit.ly/PolicePoppyAppeal. Click ‘Make a […]
We are working to support policing with a range of technology-enabled services to tackle the challenges faced by forces and the Criminal Justice System (CJS). As the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO), I am proud of our work and the progress that we are making together with our colleagues in policing to bring benefits for them […]
The Police Digital Service (PDS) is supporting the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. Amidst social isolation and the cost-of-living crisis, supporting our Armed Forces community has never been more vital. For more than 100 years, the Legion has been raising funds through the Poppy Appeals to support those who have served and their families in […]
The Police Digital Service co-hosted the event ‘Microsoft 365 in Policing’ together with the Greater Manchester Police and Microsoft on 20 October. Delegates representing more than 30 forces joined the event to learn and share best practices in app capabilities development. The theme for the day was ‘Collaboration and Innovation,’ with a special focus on […]
October has arrived, and with it Cyber Security Awareness Month. It was started in the United States as a joint initiative between the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance in 2004. Since then, it has become a global event with governments and cyber-focused organisations promoting cyber security awareness. This year’s campaign […]