Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales

Police forces in England and Wales spend around 97 percent of their £2 billion ($2.6 billion) annual technology budget on maintaining legacy systems, an official report has found. Fragmented and stop-start technology investment has resulted in the police being slow to adopt new technologies — and benefit from the expected …

[Paul Herber]

For me NAO will always be the North Atlantic Oscillation.

Not my favourite dance move.

[Aladdin Sane]

What is your favourite dance move?

[Paul Herber]

The Weddell Gyre takes some beating ...

[m4r35n357]

No worries

a1 will fix things. No need for police any more, Amazon will collect.

[Anonymous Coward]

Have worked on police systems.

They were disjointed, weird, mismanaged and generally crap.

Like many UK government systems they're tied in to contracts negotiated with sharks and suffer as a result.

[tony72]

Plans for investing in AI and service transformation held up

Well, that's terrible. I can't wait for the police to start using AI for everything. I mean, what could go wrong?

[Paul Herber]

The police take a long time to introduce new technology. New Scotland Yard is still waiting to go metric.

[Martin-73]

They're inching their way along

[BartyFartsLast]

*doffs cap*, nicely done.

[Anonymous Coward]

Will use of AI mean that they start doing something about things they prefer to ignore, like burglaries? Or will it allow them to become ever more determined to go after people posting hurty words on Twitter?

[Blue Screen of Bleurgh]

There's probably a plod station somewhere in England still using XP or 7, just as there are with some NHS GP surgeries/hospitals still use W7 on dependent devices

[Tron]

That's good.

It won't fail when MS roll out one of their duff Windows updates.

[Paul Herber]

Re: That's good.

mode=Homer

mmmm, Duff, mmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Everywhere

Seems to be a perpetual problem everywhere in government. Let me guess why; too much spending on government dictator popular projects such as facial recognition. No political kudos for updating legacy and the knighthood recedes.

[xyz]

including knife detection technology,"

didn't that used to be called cops?

[TimMaher]

PND

Moving to the cloud.

Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

Police IT organisation

~2007, the government decided to roll the Police IT Organisation into the National Police Improvement agency (Centrex/NPT/PSC) in 2007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Information_Technology_Organisation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Policing_Improvement_Agency

successive government polices have led to where we are now.

Not just in policing but across government, responsible departments or organisations where subsumed & their influence dissipated in favour of spreading influence to interested parties instead.