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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE POLICE AND GUARDING AGENCY ANNUAL REPORT<br />

PROJECT CONTACT<br />

PROJECT CONTACT<br />

completed the roll-out<br />

<strong>of</strong> Airwave radio to MDP<br />

<strong>of</strong>ficers in February 2006, <strong>and</strong><br />

we now have 2227 radios in<br />

service across the UK. Nationally,<br />

the O2 Airwave Service<br />

infrastructure was completed in October 2005. The following<br />

month, the <strong>Agency</strong> took the decision to equip the MGS with<br />

Airwave radio in order to enable the service to have improved<br />

communications with MDP, with Home Office <strong>and</strong> Scottish<br />

Office police forces <strong>and</strong> with other MOD users. As a result,<br />

a contract has been placed with O2 for 1410 Airwave Direct<br />

radios for MGS <strong>and</strong> the roll-out programme is ongoing.<br />

Airwave radio has continued to prove its operational value.<br />

It was used to good effect during the Trafalgar 200 event at<br />

Portsmouth, where for the first time MDP, the Royal Navy <strong>and</strong><br />

Hampshire <strong>Police</strong> had a common radio system for special<br />

policing <strong>and</strong> security operations. It was also used widely by<br />

MDP <strong>and</strong> Scottish Forces during the G8 Summit. Airwave<br />

allowed the MDP Gold Comm<strong>and</strong>er to maintain contact at all<br />

times with <strong>of</strong>ficers involved in the operation <strong>and</strong> ensured that<br />

every <strong>of</strong>ficer was kept ‘all informed’ as events occurred.<br />

Although O2 are continuing to develop the system,<br />

the <strong>Agency</strong> has confidence in the stability <strong>of</strong> the national<br />

infrastructure <strong>and</strong> its flexibility. The performance <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Leased Managed Terminal Service provider has been<br />

satisfactory <strong>and</strong> no major problems have arisen. The liaison<br />

Airwave radio was<br />

rolled out nationwide<br />

10<br />

Chief <strong>of</strong> Staff <strong>and</strong> Deputy Chief Constable<br />

Mr David Ray QPM<br />

with the <strong>Defence</strong> Communications <strong>Agency</strong> <strong>and</strong> with other<br />

MOD Airwave users has been maintained to ensure a<br />

consolidated approach to contractual issues with both O2<br />

Airwave <strong>and</strong> the radio supplier.<br />

The Control Room element <strong>of</strong> the project has continued<br />

to progress <strong>and</strong> all the Divisional Control Rooms, with the<br />

current exception <strong>of</strong> Fairford, have been equipped with the<br />

NSPIS Comm<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Control system. Comm<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />

Control is now established as the common system for<br />

incident management <strong>and</strong> resource deployment. As the<br />

control room operators gain in confidence <strong>and</strong> expertise,<br />

the system is becoming an increasingly valuable<br />

operational tool. The addition this year <strong>of</strong> Divisional access<br />

to the <strong>Police</strong> National Computer has been completed,<br />

allowing <strong>of</strong>ficers on operations to obtain PNC checks via<br />

the control rooms, <strong>and</strong> speeding up the PNC process<br />

generally. The Integrated Communication Control System<br />

has not yet been implemented due to network security<br />

difficulties <strong>and</strong> the need to establish suitable network<br />

capacity for the system. However, the <strong>Agency</strong> is in<br />

negotiation with DCSA in order to resolve these matters<br />

<strong>and</strong> it is anticipated that implementation will take place<br />

during the next financial year.<br />

Project Contact formally closed at the end <strong>of</strong> March 2006,<br />

with only the implementation <strong>of</strong> the Integrated<br />

Communication Control System remaining as outst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />

business. The project was the largest <strong>of</strong> its kind for the<br />

<strong>Agency</strong>. Many project lessons have been learned <strong>and</strong> will be<br />

documented to benefit future projects.

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