Mobile Phone outsourcing goes insourcing pt2

Do you remember back in March I wrote the piece about "Mobile Phone outsourcing goes insourcing" ( http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2010/03/mobile-phone-outsourcing-goes.html ), well yesterday I was given a link to Kent Police website and to the webpage dealing with public meeting notes:

http://www.kentpoliceauthority.gov.uk/public-meetings/audit-governance-committee/23-september-2009?p=2

Download and have a look at the report (link and heading as at Kent Police Website):

Item 19 Mobile Telephony Ananlysis

That is one heck of alot of money either way it is looked at for just one micro-section alone that overweights the scales on one side for public funds and yet when working as defence experts we have been systematically starved and drip fed minimal funding for the last 5 years. It could be quite laughable really (because the scales of justice are shown as balanced) if the times we are in weren't so dire. We will just have to wait and see how the new Government handles the way forward.

Mobile Phone outsourcing goes insourcing

Mobile Phone outsourcing goes insourcing

KENT NEWS: Sim card specialists will aid the technological tussle with crime following the formation of a new mobile phone unit at Kent Police.

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Officers throughout the county can now access deleted text messages, photographs and more in-house, saving the force an estimated £1.5 million that would have been spent on payments to private companies over the next two years.
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The unit was launched late last year and forms part of the existing digital forensics division, which is responsible for the examination of all computers, hard disk drives and digital storage devices.
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Last month Kent Police Authority – which oversees the running of Kent Police – revealed it will lose £20m in Government funding over the next few years and will be looking to make savings wherever possible.
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However, it also awarded the force a budget for 2010-11 of £285m – an increase of £8m from the previous financial year.
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http://www.yourthanet.co.uk/kent-news/Police-launch-new-high__tech-mobile-phone-unit-newsinkent33762.aspx?news=local&goback=.myg