This is such a disappointing result yet again for national IT in the police service (Budget threat to police, 8 March). Once again, huge quantities of public money - £30m-plus - have been wasted over the past two and a half years on a programme that has seen the Crisp core interim system abandoned due to technical issues with its scalability, when many members of the police IT community have been stating this for the past 12 months.
Why, when there are pockets of good practice in terms of data sharing and implemented large-scale solutions that already share information and intelligence within the service, are we blindly spending money and the centre on large-scale developments that never work or deliver value for money? NSPIS Case & Custody being a prime example.
Surely it is time that the whole area of IT ambitions from the centre is reformed.
Jerry Wise