Business benefits
• Secure, accredited cloud
Secure cloud hosting
streamlines vehicle and driver
behaviour management for
UK police
APD’s Artemis solution helps police forces, councils
and local governments improve the way their vehicles
are driven and their resources are deployed. Previously,
individual customers had to install and manage the
hardware, related WAN and mobile data/SIMs needed to
run Artemis — but that’s all changed since APD partnered
with UKCloud to offer Artemis as a service, hosted on its
UK-sovereign, UK-assured platform.
APD developed Artemis to help police forces manage
their vehicle fleets more efficiently, and monitor and
improve driver behaviour. As well as lowering the risk
of accidents and vehicle damage, better driving also
reduces fuel consumption, enabling a police force to
cut costs. In addition, data about driver behaviour can
be integrated into driver training programmes to tackle
specific issues and raise overall driving standards, service
intervals and scheduling.
Forces that implement Artemis can make better use of
their resources, and so serve citizens more effectively.
The solution allows the control room to see in real time,
on a map or screen, where vehicles and drivers are, so
that controllers can send the most appropriate resources
to attend incidents. The control room can even use
Artemis to send silent messages to satnavs to direct
drivers to incidents without voice calls over the radio
system.
Data about the location and movement of vehicles can
also be analysed and used by Professional Standards
teams to protect officers from fraudulent claims by the
public. In the absence of clear evidence, police forces
have often tended to make payouts to avoid the hassle
of the small claims court.
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platform suitable for
hosting sensitive police
driver data
• Faster procurement and
time to value with cloud
• Immediate access
to new features with
centralised updates
“Those payouts could easily amount to £1 million a year,”
says Mike Isherwood, APD’s Managing Director. “With
Artemis, they don’t have to spend that money any more.
Artemis data shows where drivers and vehicles were at
any given time, providing the evidence to exonerate —
or support the prosecution of — a police driver.”
Cloud hosting cuts time to value
Data and messages are sent to and from an Artemis
box installed in each police car or other vehicle. The
boxes communicate with a back-end system, which
previously had to be deployed on hardware installed
and managed by the police force itself. Using dedicated
on-premises hardware is still an option, but forces now
overwhelmingly choose to take Artemis delivered as a
service, hosted on the UKCloud platform.
Specifying, procuring and installing onsite hardware takes
time and effort. “With the hosted solution, procurement is
much faster, so a police force — and the citizens it serves
— will start enjoying the operational benefits much
quicker,” says Isherwood. “What’s more, they’ll never have
to maintain, manage or upgrade hardware, as UKCloud
takes care of the infrastructure.”
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“The UKCloud-hosted Artemis solution is quick to procure and
deploy, and comes with security and scalability built in. Police
forces can start saving money and delivering better service to
citizens much faster than ever before.”
As soon as the first Artemis box is installed in the first
vehicle, data starts flowing and the control room can
see it on the map. Full implementation typically takes
a few months, rather than a year or more. “We estimate
that each month not using Artemis costs the purchasing
police force £39 per vehicle,” says Isherwood. “Looking
at it like that makes the maths easy, and the case for the
hosted option becomes obvious.”
A safe, secure cloud for sensitive data
Rapid go-live isn’t the only thing to care about, however:
the security of the driver data collected by Artemis is
naturally top of mind for any police force. The UKCloud-
hosted Artemis service provides peace of mind on that
score, as Isherwood explains:
“With UKCloud we’ve gone to market with a UK-
sovereign cloud services provider that’s recognised in
the police market. Security is packaged in: UKCloud has
all the security credentials and capabilities we — and our
police customers — need, in order to feel confident about
moving services away from a police environment and into
the cloud,” he says.
As well as being optimised for OFFICIAL (including
OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE) — it previously met the IL2 and
IL3 security levels that are still key police service
requirements — the UKCloud platform is a verified Police
Approved Secure Facility. “UKCloud backs it all up with
extensive in-house security expertise and a credible
body of security evidence,” says Isherwood.
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New features made available across
the board
Not only does the UKCloud-hosted Artemis solution
enable faster time to value for police forces, it also makes
it quicker and easier for APD to update the solution.
Instead of visiting individual customers in turn to update
their on-premises software, APD simply updates the
software centrally on the UKCloud platform.
“We save time and effort, and our customers benefit
from having access to new features immediately,” says
Isherwood. “We’re keen to extend these and all the
other advantages of the hosted solution to our existing
customers, by helping them migrate from on-premises
Artemis solutions to the secure UKCloud platform.”
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