Dyfed-Powys Police
transformation of ru
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Issue 7 2014
D
yfed-Powys Police is leading
the way in achieving greater
efficiencies as it starts
issuing officers with Airwave’s
Pronto electronic notebook
carrying a suite of applications that
will transform the way this rural
area is policed.
Pronto is an electronic notebook
and application suite that gives
officers the ability to access vital
backend systems from the frontline.
Officers can key in information at
the point of need and then reuse the
information digitally across the full
range of policing processes available
via Pronto.
The first stage of the implementation
sees officers working in Brecon and
Carmarthenshire issued with the
latest in handheld devices so they can
access information, force systems and
undertake various processes. They will
use Pronto on the Samsung Galaxy
3 Note for a two month pilot, before
Pronto is rolled out to officers working
throughout the force.
Officers using the electronic
notebooks will have remote and
mobile access to local and national
backend systems on the force
command and control and crime
systems and the Police National
Computer (PNC). They will be able to
log information; issue fixed penalty
notices and various traffic offences
as well as being able to record crime
and incidents of domestic abuse.
Dyfed-Powys Chief Constable
Simon Prince said, “The benefits of
officers having access to systems
and information whilst out on
Dyfed-Powys Police safeguards people
living, working and visiting the counties of
Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire
and Powys. The area has a population of
more than 488,000, and that is significantly
boosted with tourists each year. The force
area covers a land mass of more than half
of Wales.
The force was formed in 1968 with the
merger of the four County Constabularies.
Geographically it is the largest police force
in England and Wales, with more than 350
miles of coastline and many remote rural
communities. The area stretches from St
David’s in the west across to Crickhowell
in the east, and up to Welshpool and
Machynlleth in the north.
