Meet obligations for information assurance

Establishing a person’s identity is a fundamental aspect of police work. That’s why police collaboration at both national and force level has never been more important. UK forces are increasingly required to share intelligence to improve crime detection and prevention. In addition, mobile access to sensitive data and police systems is essential for frontline officers.

The challenge is to make this sensitive data available to authorised personnel – yet protected from security breaches and theft. You need to be able to consistently identify legitimate access requests and accurately manage user permissions.

By 2010, all forces must meet Management of Police Information (MoPI) guidelines for consistent procedures. This will impact how forces manage, access and share information – and the technology required to do so. Your infrastructure must be an enabler for these processes.

BT can help you to visualise these challenges and implement the most effective course of action. We have the UK’s largest community of Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG) approved consultants. Our stringent identity access management solutions can identify potential risks to data security to prevent unauthorised intrusion – without compromising legitimate access. Finally, with our network expertise you can go beyond complying with MoPI standards to drive substantial operational efficiency benefits.

Improve operational efficiency in the police

Transform your operating environment

Operational efficiency is difficult to achieve when your organisation runs on disparate, disconnected IT and communication networks. Efficiency comes from being able to manage your infrastructure, your IT and communication services, and the user experience in one end-to-end environment.

With BT, you can migrate to a more flexible, responsive and cost-effective unified infrastructure for IT and communications. We provide the expert advice, technology, commercial flexibility and managed service experience needed to take care of even the most demanding networked environments. You can leverage our global scale, and expertise in designing, delivering and managing an efficient infrastructure .  We provide efficient networked IT services to 4,000 enterprises around the world.

Prevent loss of sensitive data without compromising legitimate access

Control access to sensitive data to stop criminals getting away with it

Police officers collect and access classified information on a daily basis. As more front-line officers use handheld devices, you must efficiently control authorised access to local and national records. Loss or theft of this information could result in serious crimes, such as fraud and identity theft, that fund organised gangs. It also damages the reputation of the entire police force.

The Management of Police Information (MoPI) guidelines, with which all forces must comply by 2010, state that all forces should have the security and systems to enable UK-wide collaboration and sharing of information. This will improve crime detection and prevention nationwide, and will ultimately create a national intelligence database.

More and more police personnel will need consistent access to this data, including police officers at the scene of an incident. That’s why you need MoPI-compliant procedures and technology in place to quickly identify legitimate access requests – but prevent illegal activity and security breaches.

BT can deliver a range of government and military-grade identity and access management security solutions and techniques. Our authentication, authorisation and biometric solutions ensure only users with appropriate privileges can access your data and systems – to protect sensitive information and safeguard your reputation.

Provide secure access to police systems

Help your officers and staff work with secure information

Many of your officers and staff need access to information classified as RESTRICTED and CONFIDENTIAL in order to do their jobs. Frontline officers need access from their mobile devices and backroom staff may have to work from other locations or from home. All access routes must be easy to use or you risk losing efficiency. You have to accommodate all of this yet still maintain security compliance.

All police forces have to comply with Management of Police Information (MoPI) guidelines from 2010, which require you to have infrastructure in place for secure information sharing. BT is well-positioned to help you achieve this, and has a long history of success working both with policy and the police. We offer solutions with ISO 15489 document management compliance, and ISO 17799/27001 infrastructure security compliance.

Our solutions are Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG) approved, and enable your staff to log in from remote sites or home as easily as they would at your offices, with the same high level of identity management and access level control. BT is well-versed in the latest authentication and authorisation technology, including biometrics. We have more than a decade of experience working with public key infrastructure (PKI), registration and single sign-on (SSO).