To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) status and (b) delivery timetable is of the National Policing Improvement Agency’s project to (i) create a common operating environment for police officers and (ii) create innovative information services for citizens and partners of police forces. (273020)

Following a commission from the National Policing Board, the National Policing Improvement Agency has established the Information Systems Improvement Strategy (ISIS). This programme of work will create both a common operating environment for officers and innovative information services. The ISIS programme is scheduled to be completed in 2015.

The programme’s focus for 2009-10 includes:

Delivery of a national crime mapping solution by September 2009

New national procurement agreements that will deliver cost savings

Working with police forces to develop a new digital evidence strategy that will contribute to improvements across the criminal justice system.

The ISIS plan for 2009-10 will shortly be published and distributed to police forces and police authorities and the programme will report on progress to myself and the National Policing Board in June.