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POLICE capital spending on front line communications equipment will rise amongst forces in England and Wales in the new 2012.13 year ahead.
Mobile data; airwave equipment and control rooms all show increases on the previous year, against an overall fall of 8.4% in ICT capital spend to £247m, which includes the Metropolitan Police total of £88m.
A breakdown of ICT spends by Police Market Report, the specialist monthly newsletter, puts mobile data at £15.7m, up £1.6m on 2011.12; control rooms at £6.7m, up £5.5m and airwave related equipment at £4.46m, up £1.8m.
The data, presented in spreadsheet format, covers more than 30 applications and classifies 78% of the £159m spent by provincial forces on ICT.
Telephony spending dips slightly from £7.8m to £7.3m, but video conferencing shows a sharp increase from £439k last year to £1.136k for the year ahead. Audio recording renewal costs will also rise to £8.2m, as the digital switchover gathers momentum.
Amongst police specific software applications, case preparation shows the most substantial gain for 2012.13, rising to £9.2m from £2.4m last year.
Report editor, John Rowland commented “Investment in mobile data beyond 2012.13 will be up to the new Police and Crime Commissioners and this will be the final round of radio terminal replacements before a successor to Airwave is introduced. The rise in video conferencing spending, clearly shows collaborative working is gathering pace.”
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