"The Home Office is bringing the Police National Database (PND) cloud migration in-house after a transformation program faced an additional £26 million in costs and an 18 months delay. The PND shares information across all police forces, law enforcement agencies, and regulatory bodies. The crucial system was meant to shift to the cloud, but the procurement project was delayed by more than a year."
"In a letter to MPs, Home Office Permanent Secretary Gareth Davies said the cloud transition had been based on "delivery assumptions" that had proven incorrect. Davies said the Home Office had expected 80 percent of the code from the system, which went live in 2011, could be reused. In fact, only 20 percent was reusable. As a result, it would miss its June 2025 migration target without significant extra time and funding."
""With the support contract expiring in March 2026 and no further direct award available, the programme explored contingency options, but analysis concluded continuation was not value for money ," Davies said in the written response to Parliament's Home Affairs Committee. "The programme decided it would exit the contract, bringing the service into Home Office control and in-house support.""
"The PND was proposed following the 2002 murders of two 10-year-old girls in Soham. The subsequent Bichard Inquiry identified serious weaknesses in police intelligence, including the inability of forces to access potentially important information held outside their own geographic jurisdictions. Those gaps contributed to poor information-sharing about Ian Huntley, who murdered the girls. CGI won the contract in 2009 and the system was launched in April 2011."
The Police National Database (PND) shares information across UK police forces, law enforcement agencies, and regulatory bodies. A planned cloud migration was delayed by more than a year and incurred an additional £26 million in costs. The Home Office expected 80% of legacy code from the 2011 system to be reusable, but only 20% proved reusable. The migration target for June 2025 would be missed without significant extra time and funding. With the support contract expiring in March 2026 and no further direct award available, the programme explored contingency options and concluded continuation was not value for money. The programme decided to exit the contract and bring the service into Home Office control for in-house support.
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