The Enterprise Architecture is a comprehensive framework for managing all architectural domains across policing to ensure alignment with the National Policing Digital Strategy.
How it works
This service drives consistency and quality in solution delivery. Acting as the central hub for architectural governance, we enable the delivery of technology solutions that are secure, scalable, and strategically aligned to meet the evolving needs of policing.
Benefits
- A clearly defined police-wide architectural vision that ensures consistency and alignment across forces.
- Improved collaboration and standardisation across architectural domains, reducing duplication and inefficiency.
- Optimisation of IT investments, ensuring resources are directed towards initiatives that deliver the greatest value.
- Enhanced decision-making through structured governance processes.
- Alignment of IT investments with the National Policing Digital Strategy, ensuring technology directly supports policing outcomes.
- Risk mitigation and quality assurance through comprehensive architecture frameworks and governance.
- Support for transformation initiatives, ensuring they are underpinned by robust and scalable architectural designs.
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What we need
- Commitment to engaging with our team and adhering to related principles and guidelines.
- Sharing of current and planned initiatives to ensure alignment with architectural standards.
What you get
- Guidance on emerging technologies and innovation initiatives to enhance operational capabilities.Oversight and governance for Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture, Cyber Architecture, and Data Architecture.
- Development of architectural principles, guidelines, and roadmaps to guide decision-making.
- Architectural support during programmes and projects, ensuring alignment with the National Policing Digital Strategy and adherence to best practices.
- A police-wide architectural vision that promotes standardisation, interoperability, and innovation.
- Establishment and facilitation of Technical Design Authorities (TDAs) to ensure strategic alignment and operational governance.
- Access to architecture artefacts, repositories, and documentation to support project delivery and transformation initiatives.
- Collaboration with stakeholders to align architecture with policing strategies and operational needs.
- Guidance on emerging technologies and innovation initiatives to enhance operational capabilities.
Use cases
A policing national system was planning to transition from a traditional physical data centre into a public cloud infrastructure to leverage agile compute capacity, modern infrastructure deployment, sophisticated security solutions, remove technical debt and reduce up front infrastructure expense. We provided end-to-end architectural governance, advice and oversight of the system design documentation ensuring alignment to strategy, standards, blueprints and security frameworks and best practice.
