UK Police Overview

UK law enforcement agencies have to improve their service to the public in an environment of competing demands, increasingly complex legislation, reducing resources and a need to deliver information to government bodies. These pressures mean enabling and maintaining operational focus is challenging, and they are compounded by constantly changing priorities and the need to respond to unforeseen events.

To address these challenges, law enforcement agencies are developing closer links with the community, allowing them to better identify and prioritise issues affecting them, especially low level crime and disorder issues which have a big impact on quality of life.

Today’s UK law enforcement agencies are adopting a multi-vectored approach to obtaining and sharing information and looking to provide officers and staff with a single view of ALL information known about individuals, known as the “Single Person Record.” Storing information in this way also allows a much broader picture of an individual, enabling agencies to tailor their response to individual customers’ needs. This is managed in a MoPI compliant way, and the Memex enterprise system is the only end-to end policing solution that fully manages the entire spectrum of MoPI requirements. The Memex system also provides other core records which allow a similar single view of all POLE entities - People, Objects, Locations and Events. This enables easy access to all relevant information by users in accordance with their role and responsibilities.