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Issue 8 2015
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partnership of Airwave and Surrey
Police is very impressive and it is
great to see our local force lead the
way in adopting new technologies
to help keep our communities safer.
Delivering savings of up to £2 million
a year, safely using technology to
reduce the time it takes to process
paperwork and increasing accuracy
rates also means that we can focus
our resources more effectively to
protect local people.”
“Using Airwave technologies is
becoming a vital part of working with
the local community to make Surrey
a safer county,” said Paul Palmer,
Automatic Number Plate Recognition
(ANPR) Manager, Surrey Police.
“Police officers keep the public safe
by being out on the beat, not filling in
forms back at base. Technology can
never replace the local knowledge
held by our officers but it can
support us to use our resources
effectively and ensure we have as
many police on the beat as often as
possible. We’re proud to be leading
the growing movement towards
paperless policing.”
The use of these technologies is
delivering substantial results for
Surrey Police, including:
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More officers are spending their
time on the beat and visible to the
public, rather than in the back office
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Savings of up to £2 million a year from
the benefits of adopting new technology
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With the use of Pronto’s stop and
search data, process times have been
reduced from around three minutes to
ten seconds
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Savings in digitising paper-based
evidence equal between £25-£42 per
witness statement
ive partnership’ as Surrey
chnologies from Airwave
Pictured: Surrey Police ANPR
Manager, Paul Palmer (left), and
Airwave COO, John Lewis (right),
with Sir Paul Beresford MP at the
Surrey Police Traffic Centre
