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WYP/Samsung Video00:02Andy Battle – Assistant Chief Constable - West Yorkshire PoliceWest Yorkshire Police is the 4th largest police force in the country. It’s a very diverse are and a large area it’s also very complex in the terms of its policing needs. Policing’s changed and the way we police communities has to change to meet the more connected community. So we’ve worked with Samsung to deliver a mobile policing project that gives police officers access to mobile data, mobile information, which will keep them on the streets longer which will enable them to work more effectively in the communities that they police.We’ve rolled out four thousand four hundred devices which means every patrol officer, every PCSO and every member of staff who has an operational role is able to connect to the organisation, share information, record information and access information intelligence that will allow them to work more effectively out in the communities.00:48Phil Hudson – Police Constable – West Yorkshire PoliceA call comes into the call centre now, they’ll call you on the radio and say are you free for a call and then they will send a log to command and control section on your Samsung device, you can go straight out to the call. During the incident there’s a number of things we can do dependant on obviously what the incident requires, so we can record crimes on it, we can record when we go to domestic incidents, missing person reports.01:08Norman Dixon MBE – Senior Business Improvement Consultant – AirwaveThe thing about West Yorkshire Police is they have looked at this from a technology point of view but more importantly they’ve looked at it from a business improvement point of view as well. They’ve taken a lot of time to understand their existing paper based business processes, understand all the problems that are in there and then working in partnership with their selves and Samsung designed all of these problems out and then provided back to the police officers some applications that can really do their job more efficiently and effectively.01:33 Andy Battle – Assistant Chief Constable - West Yorkshire PoliceWe get some very positive reactions from the public about what we can do when we’re at a crime scene, when we’re talking to victims and the work that we can do. Equally the public are now seeing police officers using what they see as a smart phone so we’re having to educate the public that they’re not on their own personal telephone, they’re actually doing police business. But actually that’s a message that I’m very happy to take to the public.01:51Matthew Joule – Mobile Data Manager – West Yorkshire PoliceHistorically what would have happened is that a police officer would have taken a statement of witness on paper forms, and then from that they would have transferred them to our back office systems by physically getting back in the police car and travelling to the police station and booking onto a desktop computer to record that. What they now do is as the information is been provided to them they record this onto what is effectively their digital pocket notebook a Samsung Galaxy Note three device, and that from the device transmits securely to over the air to the police back office systems.Other devices that we’ve rolled out at West Yorkshire Police include the Galaxy Tab Active, we’re on the cusp of rolling that out to our crime scene investigators to capture evidence out in the field.02:36Andy Battle – Assistant Chief ConstableThe way we’ve developed the apps the information reaches back into our Corporate IT systems immediately which gives us accurate information and timely information for police officers to do their work.02:47Mark Burns-Williamson – Police and Crime Commissioner – West Yorkshire PoliceThere’s no doubt that it’s enabling them to deal with things much more out in the community, on the beat, on their patrols. The apps that are part of this will be developed in a phased way so that the functionality of the devices will grow over a period of time. 03:06Andy Battle – Assistant Chief Constable – West Yorkshire PoliceWe selected the Samsung Galaxy device and we went with airwave to develop the apps because we wanted tried and tested technology, we wanted something we would have confidence would work and we wanted something that we would have confidence that police officers would use. So it need to be simple, it needed to be easy to understand and then easy to train. We didn’t want complex IT, we wanted something that was intuitive that did what it said on the tin, and that’s what we’ve been able to deliver. ................
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