Police Scotland cancels unified IT project plagued by problems
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#1K0GX)
Latest in a series of botched public sector IT programmes including Scottish farm payments and NHS advice systems
Scotland's police authority has abandoned a new unified IT system after it was plagued with problems, in the latest in a series of botched public sector IT programmes.
The authority said it had scrapped the 60m i6 project because of its insurmountable flaws. It had been introduced to merge more than 130 different computer and paper systems left in place after eight regional forces were merged to form Police Scotland.
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