Unisys to Help NSW Police Force Use Digital Imagery as New Weapon in Law Enforcement and Crime Preve by DAM News Staff

June 18, 2009

The New South Wales (NSW) Police Force has selected Unisys Australia in a three-year deal to implement and provide maintenance services for an end-to-end digital imagery management system to manage and protect the approximately 1 million digital images taken annually by forensic teams as well as images and video footage received from the public. This system is designed to allow the Police Force to protect images as evidence while streamlining the process of managing, sharing and accessing them to save critical time in criminal investigations. The contract has an estimated value of approximately AU$6 million (US$4.75 million).

The NSW Police Force will be the first police force in Australia to implement a digital imagery system of this scale – a solution able to manage and securely archive a large volume of images, stored in a searchable central repository, to make them quickly accessible for law enforcement purposes.

“We are investing in the future of the NSW Police Force by providing officers with the necessary resources to do their job effectively using modern, smart policing strategies,” said Detective Superintendent Ken Hughes, Commander of the Operational Information Agency, NSW Police Force. “Moving to a digital-based imagery management system will save critical time in the law enforcement process. Officers can check the quality of their photography before leaving crime scenes, with no need to process and print photographic film. In addition, they will be able to quickly search, retrieve and distribute filed images.

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