West Yorkshire Police identified the need for a completely integrated and corporate GIS solution to serve the needs of the various departments within the organisation. A full EU tender process was initiated in October 2008, and West Yorkshire Police GIS Project Team undertook a comprehensive needs analysis of the various departments that would benefit from a truly corporate GIS solution.

West Yorkshire Police determined 8 specific deliverables for a fully integrated corporate level GIS implementation including:

• Direct link to the Force Command and Control system to improve resource despatch and response times;
• The ability to analyse spatially based information to deliver tactical and strategic documents;
• Integration into the corporate data warehouse containing crime, incidents and intelligence;
• An intranet GIS solution for all employees to be able to access from any desktop;
• The ability to easily view useful operational information on a map, such as CCTV and key individual networks.

After a significant evaluation process, Cadcorp was selected to deliver a variety of GIS solutions to meet the diverse requirements, but with the underlying corporate approach to the eight deliverables.

Mike O’Neil, managing director, Cadcorp said, “We are very pleased that West Yorkshire Police has made the decision to base its corporate GIS on our technology. We look forward to working closely with them and to integrating Cadcorp SIS into their organisation”.

About West Yorkshire Police
West Yorkshire Police serve approximately 2.1 million people living in one of the five metropolitan districts. The physical area, of some 2000 square kilometres or 780 square miles, contains the West Yorkshire conurbation and a network of motorway and trunk roads which allow easy access to and from other population centres. The area is policed by around 5,600 police officers and 3,600 support staff, including Police Community Support Officers. This makes the Force the fourth largest in the country.

The Force area is very varied combining busy cities and towns with quiet villages and picturesque rural locations. People are equally varied and represent a diverse range of ethnic cultural and economic backgrounds. The overwhelming majority of police officers are engaged in operational duties that contribute towards the community safety for the people of West Yorkshire.

About Cadcorp
Established in 1991, Cadcorp is a leading UK developer and supplier of digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software, applications and associated services. With offices in the UK and the USA, Cadcorp's distribution and value-added reseller (VAR) network stretches worldwide. The company also plays a pivotal technical role in the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC)®.

The Cadcorp SIS - Spatial Information System product family is fully integrated digital mapping and GIS software that uses OGC certified compliant interfaces. Cadcorp technical director Martin Daly is an OGC Gardels Medal holder for his contribution to the OGC, and was one of the original members of the OGC Architecture Board. Cadcorp is an ISO9001:2000 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certified company, an Ordnance Survey Developer Partner and Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland Licensed Partner. Cadcorp SIS applications exist in local government, central government, emergency services, insurance, oil & natural gas, mapping and surveying, commerce, utilities and many other markets. For more information please visit: http://www.cadcorp.com