Scottish Police Information Strategy
| SPSA-ICT | |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 2007 (re-badged from Scottish Police Information Strategy (SPIS), and moved from Atlantic Quay, Glasgow, to St Vincent Street, Glasgow) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | Police area of Scotland, UK |
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| Map of SPSA-ICT's jurisdiction. | |
| General nature |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Glasgow |
| Sworn members | Approx 50 Police Staff, plus 2-3 seconded officers |
| Agency executive | Robert Kirkwood, Director |
| Website | |
| http://www.spis.police.uk/ | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Police area agency: Prescribed geographic area in the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Scottish Police Services Authority – Information Communications Technology (SPSA-ICT), formerly known as the Scottish Police Information Strategy, is an organisation within the Scottish Police Services responsible for the development of new systems with a national, cross-force scope. The personnel consist primarily of around 50 Police Staff, mainly IT professionals specialising in a range of discrete technologies, with a large contingent of those staff Java EE developers and Oracle DBAs. SPSA-ICT also retains a small number of development staff specialising in .NET technologies. Non-technical members of staff include project managers, administrative staff, internal personnel resources, software testers, senior management, and a very small number of seconded police officers with specialist knowledge of the areas impacted by projects under construction. Seconded police officers are drawn from Scotland's eight police forces, and from SPSA-Criminal Justice (formerly SCRO).
The Scottish Intelligence Database was designed by an external supplier, ABM United Kingdom Limited, under the supervision of a team from SPIS, headed by Detective Superintendent Ian McCandlish, seconded from Strathclyde Police. In respect of his involvement with the SID Project, Det Supt McCandlish was a contributor to the The Bichard Inquiry (concerning the 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley, in particular the concerns that case raised regarding how a person with Huntley's police record and background could have been approved to work in proximity to children).
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