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Cisco ConnectedForce Blueprint

Connected ForceCisco Connected Force is one in a series of three Cisco policing initiatives. It allows police forces to share common services, skills and integrated processes. By adhering to these practices, forces can remove overlapping services, re-use infrastructure and application resources and make significant cost savings. They can also improve collaboration with other agencies, forces and local authorities.

Cisco offers a suite of interactive and immersive video solutions that can reduce costs in lost travel time and officer availability. These solutions can also be used to rollout operationally efficient services such as virtual courts. What’s more, Cisco’s infrastructure solutions are able to consolidate and rationalise ICT footprints into smaller, less complex and compartmentalised platforms.

The types of infrastructure that naturally emerge from this exercise can breakdown the information walls that legacy ICT has created over the years. Taking a Cisco architectural approach also encourages a ‘build once and re-use’ mantra. This significantly reduces operational costs while vastly improving agility.

Rapid ResponseThe Cisco IP Interoperability and Collaboration System (IPICS) solution simplifies radio dispatch operations and improves response to incidents, emergencies and facility events. It dissolves communication barriers between land mobile radio systems and devices, including mobile phones, landline phones, IP phones, and PC users. By providing flexible, scalable communication interoperability, IPICS enhances the value of existing and new radio, telephony, and IP communications networks and ensures that officers can respond in a timely manner.

Exploiting the CloudWe live in a cloud era. More and more companies are using private clouds to collaborate remotely in real time. Public clouds, where IT is consumed as a Service (ITaaS), are also becoming increasingly popular. Cisco® offers a cloud portfolio with a set of capabilities that allow customers to uniquely combine cloud business applications and services with the Cisco Unified Data Centre and Cisco Cloud Intelligent Network.

Together with industry-leading ecosystem partners, we offer integrated services including collaboration, security, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and video delivery that are pre-tested for private, public, and hybrid cloud use.

Increasingly, enterprises, service providers, and governments are turning to cloud computing to reduce costs, simplify their organisations, offer innovative business models, and increase efficiencies. This includes police forces that have created silos of under or over utilised infrastructure. A Cisco powered data centre infrastructure can provide the platform for truly scale up/down compute and storage resourcing while offering forces the option of additional or complementary services and applications.

PSN Accredited RoutersPolice forces today face a complex, multi-faceted challenge. They need to provide secure remote connectivity to police stations, local government buildings, and public buildings as well as meet the growing demand for judicial voice, video and data services. Fortunately, Cisco has the answer. Our ASR 1000 and ISR G2 family delivers PEPAS/CPA-accredited VPN, firewall, intrusion prevention, web filtering, network admission control, video surveillance, telephony, hosted apps, and wireless control services to minimise costs and maximise productivity.

Securing the PerimeterIn the past, security solutions were largely focused on protecting an organisation’s physical infrastructure. Traditional security policy was expressed in terms of a particular device such as ‘the corporate PC,’ an IP address, a network port, or an application protocol. In an increasingly mobile, borderless world, this construct no longer makes any sense.

To address new network and security dynamics, new security architectures need to be much more sophisticated. Companies need a policy language that can be expressed in terms of who, what, where, when and how. Security has to be separated from the physical infrastructure underneath it. And it needs to be highly distributed so it can be deployed within the force’s region.

Cisco has developed a bold new architecture to meet the needs of borderless networks, allowing police forces to collaborate easily and their workforce to roam freely, with confidence. This architecture allows for more effective, higher-level policy creation and enforcement. Since it uses a broad array of parameters, it allows for much more effective security and enables situational awareness. Instead of many complex firewall rules, security can now be based on context, roles and responsibilities.

This sort of intelligent policy enforcement uses next-generation scanning elements that are meshed into the new Cisco® SecureX Architecture and makes use of Cisco’s comprehensive security portfolio including ASA 5500-X firewalls, Identity Services Engine (ISE), Intrusion Detection (IDS), Intrusion Prevention (IPS), and Web and Email Security Appliances.

Using Video to Increase SecurityVideo technology is taking over policing.

It’s already used extensively in virtual courts, where first hearings are held remotely via video. In the past, prisoners were held in cells overnight until the next available court hearing. Video technology has removed this cost and inconvenience. What’s more, police officers can now utilise their time better by providing evidence remotely via video from a local station using Livelinks.

This allows officers to be back out on warranted duties much faster and increases their visibility in the community. It also maximises their time and effectiveness.

There are many use cases with video that can show extensive cost reduction and return on investment. For example, forces can use video to share documents via a Cisco Webex collaboration platform. This not only saves travel time and costs, but also helps improve the environment.

To discover how video can transform your operations, take a look through the Cisco Telepresence portfolio. All of our Telepresence products have the same thing in common – they allow you to share high quality video directly from your location and cut costs across the board.

Connect and Collaborate SecurelyConfidential information is constantly passing through your data, voice, video, and mobile applications, as well as your fixed and mobile networks. This data must be protected against theft or interception at all costs. It also needs to be inspected on a regular basis to ensure it complies with police and government regulations. With Cisco secure unified communication solutions, people in any campus, branch, or remote workspace can securely connect and collaborate across a wide array of communication applications.

These solutions integrate a comprehensive security strategy with a unified communications network to protect data and resources. At the heart of the Unified Communications portfolio is the Unified Communications Manager which can be scaled to meet your organisations needs. It provides services such as session management, voice, video, messaging, mobility, as well as conferencing.

The system’s Reach Me Anywhere feature allows users to be reached by a single number no matter what device they happen to be using. If you’d rather not contact people on their phones, you can always use Cisco Jabber™. It is a Unified Communications application that allows you to find the right people, see if and how they are available, and collaborate using whatever method you like.

With escalations in incidents and information sharing across borders, police forces need highly secure voice, video, and web conferencing facilities. Cisco WebEx Meetings Server is a highly secure, fully virtualised, behind-the-firewall conferencing solution that combines everything you need in a single solution. It helps you comply with strict security or data privacy requirements, and supports locations where internet access is regulated or restricted. It also allows you to manage your conferencing solution as a capital expenditure instead of an operational expenditure.