Another IT project set to go (more) wrong
April 3, 2008Reading some Uncorrected Oral Evidence given as part of the inquiry into the Surveillance Society and came across this:
Chief Constable Neyroud: When IMPACT is actually fully implemented, in terms of its capability and its security levels, which I think is a critical thing which the debates of last few months have highlighted if nothing else, this will be a world leader in terms of the stretch and capability.
IMPACT? That rings a bell - ah yes:
The police computer system, Impact, delayed for three years (orginally due for 2007), total cost increased from £164m to £367m and ‘it had emerged that the task was more complex than first thought’ (more detail here).
Rather than attempt to be a ‘world leader’ with such a system, it is too much to ask to just get it right?
