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Amatica delivers a new solution to Merseyside Police to reduce the cost and effort of entering duplicate data into Crimemapper and Merseyside Police's corporate and neighbourhood websites.

Every police force in England and Wales, including Merseyside Police is required to submit neighbourhood information for display in the Crimemapper website (www.police.uk) launched in 2010. With a diverse portfolio of responsibilities, maintaining duplicate content for both Crimemapper and the Merseyside Police website was an unnecessary overhead for their media and corporate communications department. Reducing this duplicated effort as well as devolving content administration tasks to neighbourhood teams is one way of freeing up valuable time and resources.

Since the start of 2010, Merseyside Police absorbed the additional demands of maintaining Crimemapper information. However, virtually all of the Crimemapper information is a duplication of content published within Merseyside Police's corporate and neighbourhood websites. Unfortunately, this means that neighbourhood police team information needs to be entered twice; once into the Merseyside Police force website and then into Crimemapper - an unnecessary duplication and wasteful of valuable time. 

Amatica has responded with a functionally rich yet cost effective solution that reduces duplication and manual input, devolves neighbourhood content publishing to neighbourhood teams whilst improving admin and management controls. The result is PCDS (Police Content Distribution System). PCDS’ first customer is Merseyside Police.

PCDS provides facilities to manage:

• Neighbourhood team, inspector, officer and station details;
• area/district/ward hierarchies and contacts (area commander, etc.);
• priorities by neighbourhood;
• events by neighbourhood;
• news by neighbourhood;
• engagement methods (phone, website, FaceBook, Twitter, etc.);
• website and URL links;
• documents;
• publication direct to Crimemapper without the need to enter data manually into the Crimemapper TeamDB maintenance facility;
• publication direct to website and intranet without additional manual input;
• authentication of user access controls;
• available as an efficient and secure web-based service.

PCDS is enabling Merseyside Police to remove duplication and devolve publishing to neighbourhood teams resulting in more effective use of limited and valuable manpower resources as well as delivering faster and efficient publishing.

For Jayne Pugh, Merseyside Police's Head of Media & Corporate Communications, reducing duplicated tasks is vital. "Like most police corporate communication departments we have undergone a restructure and have had to think about smart and more efficient ways of working. Amatica's PCDS solution is enabling my team to service Crimemapper with no additional or unnecessary effort."

PCDS can be tailored to operate with most content management systems and makes use of the Crimemapper TeamDB standard import facilities.
 

© Amatica 05/01/2012