Issuing consumer-grade technology to police Forces leaves them ill-equipped for the scenarios that frontline officers encounter on a daily basis. TOUGHBOOK offers solutions to the most important issues that policing faces in regard to their technology usage.
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"Our IT budget is approximately 11% of annual policing spend … we have a clear obligation to maximise the benefit … we realise from that investment."
The Digital Policing Strategy 2030
As a minimum, any current mobile technology in use by a police officer needs:
Too often, purchasing criteria is about what the innovative technology can do, rather than cannot. But ignoring build vulnerability is a mistake. Deploying consumer-grade mobile technology might look cheaper on paper, but it risks compromising public spend, officer effectiveness and worse – their safety.
"The pace of change has never been this fast. We are living through remarkable advances in mobile, cloud, artificial intelligence, sensors, and analytics."
The National Policing Digital Strategy: The Digital, Data and Technology Strategy
2020–2030,
Safety is non-negotiable and issuing front-line officers with fit-for-purpose kit is essential. Too often, the priority is cost, not effectiveness; short-term spend, not long-term investment return. And as purchasing professionals know, they are quite different things.
In the context of mobile police officers, procurement and IT managers must consider these challenges before committing to a spend.
So if these are the problems, what is the solution?
Unlike consumer grade goods, the Panasonic TOUGHBOOK range of rugged devices was created with front line emergency responders as a primary use case.
Every device is loaded with the features needed for duties to be undertaken as effectively as possible, while minimising downtime and risk to officers.
"Specialists such as Scenes of Crime Officers prefer laptops with full size screens, and these tended to be ‘toughened’ devices to cope with the rigours of field use as opposed to use of laptops issued to other roles."
Mobile Technology in UK Policing
and the Emergency Service Network
Desktop-like experience in the field, including keyboards, reduces the need to return to the office for desktop-typical tasks.
4G/5G for always-on access to data and applications in the field (LAN, Bluetooth, GPS).
Optimised antennas means that officers can communicate, access vital incident info and report in real time on the move.
TOUGHBOOK users can tap into national systems including Libra, the PNC, and Police National Database (PND) as well as the critical information held within third-party solutions.
Officers have constant access to Microsoft 365 applications, including Teams.
Enhanced battery life to support demanding shifts.
Assured access to high level data summaries, and the option to drill down in more detail and update individual records as required.
Access to in-device innovations such as COPS and Mobile Fingerprint Suspect Biometrics.
Camera to collect photos as supporting evidence.
e-Sim functionality for the management of mobile and large-scale device estates
And all within a shockproof, element-defying casing that will simply not let anyone down.
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