News for 'UIS' - (Unisys to Help NSW Police Force Use Digital Imagery as New Weapon in Law Enforcement and Crime Prevention Secure Digital Imagery Management System to Help Law Enforcement Officers More Efficiently Access and Store Images and Video to Assist Investigations)
SYDNEY, Jun 17, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The New South Wales (NSW) Police Force
has selected Unisys Australia in a three-year deal to implement and provide
maintenance services for an end-to-end digital imagery management system to
manage and protect the approximately 1 million digital images taken annually by
forensic teams as well as images and video footage received from the public.
This system is designed to allow the Police Force to protect images as evidence
while streamlining the process of managing, sharing and accessing them to save
critical time in criminal investigations. The contract has an estimated value of
approximately AU$6 million (US$4.75 million).
The NSW Police Force will be the first police force in Australia to implement a
digital imagery system of this scale - a solution able to manage and securely
archive a large volume of images, stored in a searchable central repository, to
make them quickly accessible for law enforcement purposes.
"We are investing in the future of the NSW Police Force by providing officers
with the necessary resources to do their job effectively using modern, smart
policing strategies," said Detective Superintendent Ken Hughes, Commander of the
Operational Information Agency, NSW Police Force. "Moving to a digital-based
imagery management system will save critical time in the law enforcement
process. Officers can check the quality of their photography before leaving
crime scenes, with no need to process and print photographic film. In addition,
they will be able to quickly search, retrieve and distribute filed images.
"As Australia's largest police organization covering a diverse population of
seven million people across more than 800,000 square kilometers, we deal with
very high case loads so time efficiency is critical. In addition, digital
imagery is pervasive in our society - from cameras in cell phones to closed
circuit TV cameras - so we receive a large volume of imagery from the public.
The Unisys solution will help us protect digital images and footage, while
enabling investigators to access and use them more effectively," he said.
Allen Koehn, managing partner, Public Sector, Unisys Asia Pacific said: "This
NSW Police Force initiative reflects a common trend in law enforcement
organizations worldwide in recognizing the role that technology can play to
provide new tools to help law enforcement and crime prevention - technology can
help provide new capability on the front line.
"These digital images are critical pieces of evidence that must be both
protected and shared with the law enforcement officers who need them to
investigate and prosecute criminals. Our knowledge of the importance of imagery
used as evidence has been fundamental to the design of the Unisys solution,
which is based on a combination of our security, technology and applications
expertise, as well as the insight of the Unisys team which includes
professionals who have worked as law enforcement officers."
Shared Imagery Management System - the Unisys Solution
Under the three-year contract, Unisys (NYSE:UIS) will provide systems
integration services and customization of the software user interface so that
the solution allows the police force to meet the NSW Police Force's security and
workflow requirements as defined by the Australian Guidelines for Digital Image
Processes. The solution will run on eight Unisys ES3240L and 24 Unisys ES3215L
Enterprise Servers.
The Shared Imagery Management System (SIMS) is designed to quickly and securely
categorize, archive, search and distribute imagery that the NSW Police Force
obtains from two sources: the forensic-grade photography taken by police
officers at crime scenes, and the many formats and modes of imagery collected
from the public. This will allow investigators to efficiently access and
distribute imagery from both sources - for example, sending photographs of
fingerprints to relevant experts or storing closed circuit TV footage retrieved
from a shop's security surveillance system for later analysis.
Forensic experts will be able to use SIMS to upload images from digital cameras,
and securely archive encrypted copies of them in a digital "vault" where the
hardware locks the images so they cannot be modified or deleted. They would then
attach metadata tags to a working copy of the images which may include a job
number, time and date of shot, and name of photographer, for easy retrieval. The
system tracks what has happened to the image at every step of the process to
ensure forensic integrity.
The video and images collected from the public comes from a range of sources in
a wide variety of formats. To make it easier and quicker for investigators to
use this imagery, a copy of the original file will be saved into the digital
vault, and then another working copy of the image will be passed through a
powerful transcoding application to convert the file into a common, easily
accessible format.
The forensic and public images will be stored on two separate systems.
The Unisys solution will feature FotoWare(R), from Pivotal Business Technology,
as the enterprise-class digital asset management software used in the heart of
SIMS. Unisys has also partnered with EMC to provide the storage capability
including EMC Centera(R) for the digital vault and EMC CLARiiON for the storage
supporting the work system.
Unisys has extensive experience delivering high-end IT services - from security,
identity and credentialing solutions to outsourcing, hardware integration and
application modernization - to federal and state government departments and
agencies in Australia and internationally. These include biometric facial
imaging for Queensland Transport's new smartcard drivers license; end user
services and multisourcing management for the Australian National Audit Office
and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC); biometric solutions as
part of the DIAC Enhanced Border Control Program; and various IT services to the
Australian Department of Defence such as regional information and communication
technology services to 460 defense locations across the country. Unisys combines
local and global expertise to provide services-led, technology-based solutions
to the public sector with specific expertise in Asia Pacific in supporting
national security and law enforcement initiatives.
About Unisys
Unisys is a worldwide information technology company. We provide a portfolio of
IT services, software, and technology that solves critical problems for clients.
We specialize in helping clients secure their operations, increase the
efficiency and utilization of their data centers, enhance support to their end
users and constituents, and modernize their enterprise applications. To provide
these services and solutions, we bring together offerings and capabilities in
outsourcing services, systems integration and consulting services,
infrastructure services, maintenance services, and high-end server technology.
With more than 27,000 employees, Unisys serves commercial organizations and
government agencies throughout the world. For more information, visit
www.unisys.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Any statements contained in this release that are not historical facts are
forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements rely on assumptions and are
subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from expectations. In particular, statements in this release
regarding the anticipated value of the contract assume that the contract will
continue for its full term. As the agreement is terminable for convenience by
NSW Police before the end of its term, the estimated value of the engagement is
not guaranteed. Additional discussion of factors that could affect Unisys future
results is contained in periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
RELEASE NO.: 0617/8997
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CONTACT:
Unisys
APAC
Claire Hosegood, +61 411 253 663
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or
US
Brad Bass, 703-439-5887
brad.bass@unisys.com
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