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<p>The National Automatic Number Plate Recognition Service (NAS) is a national system
replacing the current National ANPR Data Centre (NADC), used by Police Forces to interrogate
ANPR data.</p><p>The department has submitted a bid to HMT as part of the spending
review process and we are in active discussions about the amount of money that we
should be investing in the National ANPR Service (NAS), both centrally and out to
individual forces. We have shared with the Treasury the full cost of NAS and its potential
replacement for the forthcoming year and for subsequent years, including what will
flow centrally and what will flow through individual forces. We expect a decision
on the funding settlement from HMT this month.</p><p>Programme costs are separated
into 3 categories; first the cost of building and rolling out the NAS infrastructure,
software and any related changes to the force systems; second costs for the programme
team and; third the cost to maintain NAS system and its legacy system, National ANPR
data centre (NADC). The costs for delivering the new NAS system is by far the most
significant and, subject to commercial negotiation, the annual cost of NAS service
following the commercial negotiations is likely to amount to c. £15 million per year
and takes into account the costs of keeping legacy systems in place until the Minimal
viable product (MVP) is delivered in Spring 2021 and programme costs. The negotiation
has achieved future years reduction on service costs which benefit policing long term.</p><p>The
current programme overspend is approximately £6.9m for this financial year and considers
the costs of delivering the MVP and any programme costs. The additional in year costs
are to focus on delivering the critical MVP, but an overall reduction in service costs
has been achieved over the lifetime of the new contract presently being negotiated.</p><p>The
programme set itself an original target of transitioning all users from the current
NADC system and legacy local systems by Autumn 2020. We are now targeting a MVP in
Spring 2021 with the legacy NADC system being retired in Spring 2022 once all forces
have been transitioned across to NAS. Since the award of the G-Cloud contact in 2018
to the current delivery partner there have been 3 key releases to date. The current
release is forecast to be 7 months later than originally planned.</p><p>Both during
and since the programme reset in May 2016, where a review of the critical objectives
of the programme that were set April 2015, it has undergone extensive assurance both
internally within the department and externally through Cabinet Office, GDS and HMT.</p><p>The
programme continues to build confidence in the delivery of the NAS through regular
engagement with our Programme User Group and it’s subgroups, as well as, weekly update
meetings with the NPCC ANPR Portfolio Change Lead. Programme teams also manage regular
contact with forces and LEAS to provide updates in addition to weekly briefing notes
to provide updates and progress. The SRO is in discussion with the ANPR Portfolio
Lead about establishing a group of senior police representatives to manage the NAS
roadmap into the future.</p><p>The Department remains committed to completing the
delivery of NAS, realising the benefits of NAS and delivering police effectiveness
and operational efficiency savings. These include cashable reduction in running costs
through the decommissioning of legacy systems and a wide range of broader benefits
such as reducing the time to identify a vehicles of interest, public time savings,
improved searches and better intelligence sharing.</p>
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