Sharing and Managing Information

In the past Information Sharing Agreements (ISAs) from police and other information providers have obliged partnerships to physically sign-out personal information to members, then sign them back again before the information expires. For under-resourced partnerships that's a time-consuming and onerous task: corners are too often cut. With Littoralis™, personal information such as mugshots, names and incident summaries can be communicated online to members so they are always up-to-date and automatically deleted at expiry dates. Most if not all police ISAs now allow online information-sharing through Littoralis™ information-sharing products.

Our information-sharing products generate a range of different presntations of personal data. In mugshot 'galleries' for example, which display different offenders for day-time schemes (such as Shopwatch) and night-time schemes (like Nightsafe or Pubwatch) and for targeted and excluded offenders, and ASBOs. 'Most Prolific' galleries can be generated for gangs, retail, night-time and anti-social behaviour offenders, and galleries for 'Most Vulnerable' individuals. Personal data can also be displayed in a single browseable list to help with recognition.

Members can print out content displayed on their secure intranets at any time, in any places - but if a mugshot gallery goes astray or personal data is discovered in an unauthorised or non-compliant location, each gallery is coded so that the partnership can easily identify the member responsible.

A special 'Unidentified Offenders' mugshot gallery can be accessed by members, and unidentified mugshots are displayed on the automated eNewsletter that is generated and sent out each week. This greatly increases the number of positive identifications - a crucial step in successful offender-targeting.

Every item of 'expired' personal information is automatically deleted from the system - although partnerships can monitor soon-to-expire information and extend the expiry date if necessary, accoding to partnership protocols. Related non-personal data is retained for the purpose of generating Partnership Performance Reports.