Thames Valley Police, Smart Beat pilot, significantly increases the efficiency of police officers. Modern police forces have a swathe of information tools available, but they can rarely be accessed directly on the beat. To increase the time that its police spend on the beat, rather than on their radios
communicating back to base, or in the office filling out forms, Thames Valley Police is piloting a mobile system based on Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC. Currently being tested in the field by approximately 70 officers, the Smart Beat system is already delivering significant time savings to the force with each user making an estimated 60 percent more vehicle and people checks. Instead of the three minutes it took previously, each check now takes about 20 seconds. Pilot team members are also spending up to one hour more on the beat per shift as a result of mobile access to their e-mail messages and calendars.
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