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Parity Training helps Staffordshire Police bust bureaucracy

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London, UK - February 17, 2009

Parity Training has worked with Staffordshire Police over the last 6 months to train 1,200 staff to use mobile devices, to access critical applications and submit valuable information, wherever they are. Second and third trenches of training are planned from April this year to cater for another 900 officers and police community support officers.

The training programme supports the Force’s Mobile Data Project, which aims to mobilise officers through streaming desktop-bound systems to devices such as PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). The Project will cut time spent on desk-based administration, as staff can complete reports remotely. Parity is administering and managing the trainers for the rollout of the system.

“While mobile devices themselves are not new, the ability to use them as interfaces to core business and policing applications is,” said Allan Pettman, managing director at Parity Training. “We are working closely with Staffordshire’s Mobile Data project team to enable the widespread and effective adoption of this new technology across the Force.”

Parity is training officers to use the devices, and the accessible software, on a 1:6 basis in an Instructor-led Training environment. Training is further supported with trouble-shooting surgeries which are based at Police Stations across the Staffordshire county.

Once trained, the bureaucracy-busting devices save officers up to 30 minutes per shift as they are able to send and receive information while on the beat.

A spokesperson at Staffordshire Police commented: “Parity's training is helping officers spend less time in the station and more on the streets.”

He added: “Officers can now carry out checks at the scene of suspected crimes by accessing applications remotely, including checking vehicle registrations and looking at the profiles of suspects. This means more effective, more immediate policing, which is good for the whole community. Officers now upload more than 80 per cent of crime reports, and update more than 50 per cent of incident details, via PDAs[1]. Response has been excellent from all the officers using the system. We are effectively changing the face of policing, by moving the office to the officer, rather than the other way round.”

The Staffordshire Mobile Data Project was born from a Home Office initiative, which aimed to deliver 10,000 mobile data devices to 27 forces across the country in 2008 (worth £50 million). The funding was extended further for 2009 (an additional £30 million), with the aim to rollout mobile devices to a further 25 police forces.

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About Parity
Parity is a business and IT solutions company. With over 40 years' industry experience, it delivers a range of recruitment, learning and business and IT solutions that contribute to the growth and organisational performance of private and public sector clients.

Parity has deep industry knowledge and expertise across a variety of sectors including commercial, central and local government, defence and commercial. It delivers people, skills and concepts for IT projects and programmes and has provided these services to a range of blue-chip clients, including BT, Ofgem, HBOS, The Cabinet Office, BAT and The Charity Commission.

The company operates as three divisions, Solutions, Resources and Training, all of which use people to solve business and IT issues. Parity designed and runs the largest graduate recruitment programme in the UK for The Cabinet Office, is responsible for creating the UK’s award winning eGovernment portal, eFire, ranks as the top supplier of IT and Programme and Project Management specialist contractors to the public sector through the Catalist framework and throughout its history, has delivered training to over 1 million people - more people than any other UK IT training provider

Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Parity recorded a turnover of over £150m in 2007.

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[1] Source: Staffordshire Police Mobile Data Project: background, 2008

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“While mobile devices themselves are not new, the ability to use them as interfaces to core business and policing applications is,” said Allan Pettman, managing director at Parity Training. “We are working closely with Staffordshire’s Mobile Data project team to enable the widespread and effective adoption of this new technology across the Force.”

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A spokesperson at Staffordshire Police commented: “Parity's training is helping officers spend less time in the station and more on the streets.”

He added: “Officers can now carry out checks at the scene of suspected crimes by accessing applications remotely, including checking vehicle registrations and looking at the profiles of suspects. This means more effective, more immediate policing, which is good for the whole community. Officers now upload more than 80 per cent of crime reports, and update more than 50 per cent of incident details, via PDAs[1]. Response has been excellent from all the officers using the system. We are effectively changing the face of policing, by moving the office to the officer, rather than the other way round.”

About the company

About Parity
Parity is a business and IT solutions company. With over 40 years' industry experience, it delivers a range of recruitment, learning and business and IT solutions that contribute to the growth and organisational performance of private and public sector clients.

Parity has deep industry knowledge and expertise across a variety of sectors including commercial, central and local government, defence and commercial. It delivers people, skills and concepts for IT projects and programmes and has provided these services to a range of blue-chip clients, including BT, Ofgem, HBOS, The Cabinet Office, BAT and The Charity Commission.

The company operates as three divisions, Solutions, Resources and Training, all of which use people to solve business and IT issues. Parity designed and runs the largest graduate recruitment programme in the UK for The Cabinet Office, is responsible for creating the UK’s award winning eGovernment portal, eFire, ranks as the top supplier of IT and Programme and Project Management specialist contractors to the public sector through the Catalist framework and throughout its history, has delivered training to over 1 million people - more people than any other UK IT training provider

Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Parity recorded a turnover of over £150m in 2007.

http://www.parity.net/

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