I’m delighted to be able to share the news that the Police Digital Service (PDS) has joined the Tech Talent Charter (TTC). The TTC was created in 2015 to address the UK’s tech talent shortage and diversity problem through collective action. It is a government-supported, industry-led membership group that brings together 700+ Signatory organisations and equips them with the networks […]
In 2020, PDS, in partnership with National Police Technology Council (NPTC), published the National Policing Digital Strategy. This year, we are carrying out a three-year review and refresh of the strategy. The consultation phase of the refresh has commenced and we recently held an engagement session with industry representatives hosted by TechUK. On that occasion, we shared […]
There isn’t a monopoly on good ideas in the business change and IT department, and it’s long been said “If you want to improve something, then ask the people who use the service or process how to improve it.” Also there are lots of colleagues who can unlock huge benefit in terms of improving service […]
Police forces and partners across the criminal justice system are grappling with significant pressures and challenges. There is a constant need to keep pace with and respond to changes with digital, data and technology. Often, police officers and staff are reliant on outdated and mostly manual processes, which leads to less time available and capability […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]