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<p>The Home Office is running an ambitious portfolio of programmes to improve the
national technology capabilities available to policing. This includes: the Emergency
Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) providing a single platform for critical
voice and data; Home Office Biometrics provides a single platform for fingerprint,
facial recognition and DNA; The National Law Enforcement Data Programme provides access
across policing to national police information as well as sharing intelligence across
forces; The National ANPR Service will unite all local ANPR systems into a single
national system; and the Home Office continues to enhance the capabilities of the
national Child Abuse Image Database.</p><p>These programmes are replacing aging and
obsolete technology, as well as introducing new capabilities, and we are working with
policing across this portfolio to support maximisation of the benefits these offer:
cash savings, productivity opportunities and better outcomes for the public.</p>
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