RSSPolice officers throughout Lancashire, United Kingdom, will soon use mobile computers to enable them to spend less time in the station and more time on the streets. O2 Airwave, the company that operates the U.K.'s largest public-safety digital communications network, secured a contract to provide a managed forcewide strategic mobile data solution based around the Airwave Mobile Applications Gateway (MAG) service and the national secure Airwave TETRA digital communications network. The contract runs over 10 years and follows a successful pilot that saw O2 Airwave working closely with Lancashire Constabulary for almost four years to develop the mobile-data solution. The solution provides the Lancashire force with a wide range of device and technology options. This ensures that officers can always be equipped with the most appropriate mobile computer for the task at hand and provides the force with total flexibility as it starts to mobilize key operational processes. Device options over the Airwave TETRA network range include fixed in-vehicle mobile data terminals (MDTs) and portable TETRA-enabled personal digital assistants (PDAs). Front-line offices who will use the service have the following applications:
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