HC Deb 11 March 2002 vol 381 cc711-2W
24. Mr. Miller

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on his strategy for investment in technology designed to improve police administrative procedures. [38897]

Mr. Denham

The Police Reform White Paper includes major strategies for using information technology to reduce bureaucratic burdens on police officers.

Major projects which will benefit from central investment include the Airwave national police communications service; the National Strategy for Police Information Systems to improve the recording and delivery of information across the police service and wider criminal justice system; the National Automated Fingerprint Identification's System and the Police National Network Two which will add new services such as internet and extranet connectivity to the original Police National Network.