2001 Press Releases

QLD Police selects Objective Corporation for service-wide electronic records keeping

The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has selected an integrated document and information management system from Australia's Objective Corporation (ASX:OCL) to improve the effectiveness of its operational and administrative record keeping. This will help manage evidence of QPS' business activities, make tracking crime more efficient and accurate, as well as freeing resources to facilitate more effective policing.

Due to the high levels of scrutiny and accountability it is subject to, the QPS has always required high standards of reporting, documentation and records with high evidential integrity. QPS has chosen Objective Corporation's software to provide a solution to best manage all of this information consistently across the Service, according to Australian and international standards, as well as to provide QPS with a means to gain maximum value from it. Unisys Australia has been selected as the prime contractor for the implementation of the system.

At present, QPS' records management is on a regional basis, rather than servicewide basis. Objective's software will enable QPS to track crime statewide and more accurately - criminals are highly mobile. Until now, tracking has not been as efficient as it could be because mature records management standards have not been in place. For the first time, QPS will have a complete picture of all of its information assets - they will be able to reliably track and find.

Currently, QPS has a number of different methods for managing records including mainframe correspondence indices, legacy systems, multitudes of databases and manual processes. QPS records include physical and electronic records - paper, photography, audio-visual, police notebooks, databases, emails, faxes, wordprocessing documents and spreadsheets. QPS required a system that provided seamless access to any record regardless of content, format, location or source.

This is the last piece in QPS' overall standardisation of its records management practices. Since 1994, QPS has been reviewing its practices, developing policies and business cases, to fit requirements by the Public Sector Management Commission to standardise its records management practices. QPS is now at the stage where it needs the right tool to be able to move forward.

"Objective has a very high match to QPS' total requirements. It offers an extremely sophisticated management package, which QPS anticipates will meet their requirements, especially with its flexibility," said Tony Walls, Objective Corporation's CEO Asia Pacific. "QPS wanted software with a great deal of flexibility in its search criteria. With the capabilities Objective's software offers, we believe the solution will be able grow with QPS into the future."

QPS also selected Objective for its ease-of-use. Everyone within QPS - from administrative staff, to police on the beat - will use this information management system. Therefore, the system needed to cater for a wide range of computer literacy. Objective rated very highly on user friendliness. Upon successful completion of a comprehensive pilot in a single region, Objective's technology will potentially be rolled out to more than 12,000 police and public service staff within the QPS.

"QPS is a major win for Objective in Queensland," said Tony Walls, "We officially opened our Brisbane office in April 2001 and are already working with the Queensland Department of Justice and focusing efforts on servicing Queensland government organisations."

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