Joint Annual Report of the MPS and MPA 2007/08

Section 2: 2007/08 Strategic PrioritiesInformation Quality‘To achieve an effective police service for London, good qualityinformation is one of the Metropolitan Police Service’s mostvaluable resources and must be reliable and complete. The effectivemanagement of information enables vital decision making and allowsus to be proactive, prevent crime before it occurs and bring offendersto justice’Key Deliverables for 2007/08:• Saving officer time through lessre-keying of information, byjoining more systems together,and simplifying access to themsecurely using single sign on• Increasing detection rates bymaking better connectionsbetween information stored onour systems• Making our officers betterinformed through targeted dataquality improvements and sharingof good practice, focusing onfront-line systems• Faster, more accountable decisionmaking by improving the way wemanage electronic documents• Better access to stored documentsusing an improved intranetsearchingtool• Helping officers to protect childrenand vulnerable people by sharingappropriate information with ourbusiness partners• Enabling officers to captureinformation from incidents bytrialling and extending mobiledevices• Improving the way officers manageinformation by adjusting attitudesand values.26