Programme

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Opening Keynote Address: Joining Forces – Linking Up to Reduce Crime

• Implementing recommendations in Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing report
• Policing and Crime Bill (Act) – how will technology assist in the collaboration of all police forces
• Improvement in criminality information management – investment in compatible systems across the CJS to effectively share information
•  The effectiveness of the National DNA Database in helping identify offenders quicker and secure arrests earlier
• The success of handheld computers in cutting red tape on the frontline –  £80m investment to deliver 30,000 extra devices by March 2010
• The future of a joined up approach to offender management – rolling out C-NOMIS in 2011
• Investment in science and technology for policing – helping to detect crime, convict offenders and exonerate the innocent

Managing and Sharing Information To Keep Communities Safer

• IMPACT Programme:
• Management of Police Information (MoPI) – implementing Code of Practice by 2010
• IMPACT Nominal Index (INI) – sharing information of persons of interest across forces
• Police National Database – initial success of Phase 1 Deployment in 2010
• Information Systems Improvement Strategy (ISIS) – moving towards common, compatible use of technology:
• Targets for 2015 – equipping officers with new and enhanced information capabilities
• Addressing security issues associated loss or theft of handheld devices
• Increasing citizen participation in the criminal justice process through technology
• Mobile Information Programme (MIP) – providing officers with crucial information on the beat
• Creating a co-ordinated approach to technology procurement – delivering new capabilities to the frontline faster and for less
• Alternatives to Airwave technology – looking beyond 2015
• PentiP programme – computerising the issue of tickets for motoring and minor offences by 2011
• Investment in stop and search technologies – reducing the bureaucracy attached to lengthy forms without reducing quality of policing

Speaker invitation extended to: Peter Neyroud, Chief Executive, National Policing Improvement Agency

Wiring Up Youth Justice – Moving Information Securely and Quickly Across the Youth Justice System

• Exploiting existing shared services systems – reducing the cost, risks and complexity of wiring up youth justice
• Effective project and programme management in wiring up youth justice – what lessons can be shared to the wider criminal justice community
• Benefits of a web –based information sharing over dedicated network – the solution of cloud computing
• Providing Youth Justice Practitioners with skills to effectively use technology that will provide real business change
• Procurement of IT systems – working with private sector suppliers to accelerate the development of new technologies and systems
• Remote working – helping practitioners stay connected securely through new forms of mobile technology Criminal Justice Secure Email & Government Secure Intranet
• eAsset – electronic Sentence Planning and Management Tool :
• Ensuring greater safety and better offender management
• Current examples of use of eAsset in Young Offenders Institute
• Contact Point – providing an efficient way for different services to access information on specific child or young person
• Utilising video conferencing technology to join up practitioners, families and young people – reaping the green benefits associated with this technology

Speaker invitation extended to: Andy Weller, Chief Information Officer and Programme Director, Wiring Up Youth Justice, Youth Justice Board

End to End Offender Management – Joining up Prisons and Probation

• Facilitating the full roll out of the C-NOMIS by 2011 – replacement of all current prison systems
• Upgrading Delius System to create Single National Case Management System – learning from current live sites on areas of best practice and improvement
• Current successes of C-NOMIS in the three live sites
• Integrating C-NOMIS and Delius to create a bridging system of case management – the benefits of this over a single integrated system
• Updating the Offender Assessment System (OASys) – redeveloping as a single national system across probation and prisons
• Avoiding double keying – how will new system help avoid duplication of work?

Speaker invitation extended to: Phil Wheatley, Director – General, National Offender Management Service

Seminars

• Video conferencing in the Criminal Justice System
• Delivering successful IT projects
• Working towards smarter interfaces
• Protecting borders through IT
• Delivering Information Security whilst remaining green
• Ensuring best use of RFID
• New technologies to tackle car crime
• Securing handheld computers
• Managing and Maintaining Critical Databases
• Effective collection, management and presentation of digital evidence
• Secure e-mail solutions for the Police
• Securing sensitive data and information
• Connecting police forces to encourage collaborative working for local solutions
• Public Sector Networks: Linking up police and criminal justice agencies
• Engaging the public to tackle crime through IT
• Green IT solutions to criminal justice IT

Opening Afternoon Keynote Address: Reducing Bureaucracy – Getting Back on the Beat

• Reducing the paperwork associated with police work – allowing more officers to patrol the streets
• Joining up the CJS through effective IT systems – reducing administrative burden to create efficient system
• The introduction of Mobile Urban Gaols (MUG) – purpose built static custody suites which will result in less travel time back to police station:
• The costs of technology associated with MUG’s such as videoing equipment and satellite links
• Learning from International examples of best practice in cutting red tape in crime and justice through IT
• Investment in crime mapping technologies

Speaker invitation extended to: Chris Grayling MP, Shadow Home Secretary

Sponsor Presentation

Embracing Technologies to Reduce Bureaucracy in Policing

• Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing – Final Report
• Working toward full compatibility and integration of police information systems by 2015
• Realising the benefits of digital recording of interviews
• Providing easier access to interviews and streamlining the investigative and judicial process
• Business advantages and related cash savings
• Success of trial projects
• Working with external IT professionals to draw on best practice in project management associated with creating an integrated IT system
• The benefits of mobile devices for frontline officers to cut red tape
• Understanding the limitations of mobile devices and where paper forms cannot be replaced
• Learning from leaders – sharing best practice in technologies to all police forces

Jan Berry, Independent Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing Advocate (CONFIRMED)

The 2010 Programme – Creating an Integrated System to Fight Serious Organised Crime

• £500m investment in 2010 Programme to create an integrated system to tackle fraud
• IT Transformation at SOCA – integrating the inherited two separate IT systems
• Using technology to better share information with police forces across the country
• £1.5bn efficiency savings associated with technology –enabled self support programme
• The importance of SOCA’s IT transformation in tackling 21st Century threats – evidence of success

Speaker invitation extended to: Bill Hughes, Director – General, Serious Organised Crime Agency

Delivering Greater Efficiency across the CJS through Technology

• Virtual Courts – using videoconferencing technology to deliver swift justice for all
• Making use of digital recording systems – making it easier to store and share sensitive information
• Making best use of digital evidence systems – reducing the cost of preparation and presentation of evidence
• Meeting targets in the Operational Efficiency Report across the CJS – making efficiency savings to reinvest into fighting crime
• Further investment in use of new technologies to assist frontline staff meet needs of the public
•  Supporting local criminal justice boards to develop innovative ways of developing and using technology
• Using technology to safeguard victims and witnesses – creating infrastructure in all courts to provide video evidence via remote link

Speaker invitation extended to: Sharon White, Chief Executive, Office of Criminal Justice Reform