How policing transformations are keeping Australians safe
Helping public safety agencies meet shifting goalposts and emerging community expectations
For over 17 years, bdna have had the privilege of supporting some of the largest Public Safety Transformations in Australia. Our work has included updating aging systems and implementing new pioneering technologies to ensure interoperability and provide increased functionality. The impact of these transformations has meant critical information can now be accessed faster and more accurately, keeping up with the growing challenges experienced by our frontline police officers, and further supporting them to keep our communities safe.
As Australians’ benefit from greater connectivity and emerging technologies, the needs and expectations on our public safety services continue to change and evolve, and so must the systems that support our nation’s public safety organisations. This means, whatever works for today, may not work for the environmental needs of tomorrow. Bdna ensures agile, robust, and scalable systems ready for further development, adaption, innovation and expansion, as required for the future.
Power in partnerships
Government and private sector partnerships are a gateway to merging industry-proven best practice with innovations across delivery capability and technology. Bdna is at the forefront of these powerful partnerships, combining emerging digital technologies from the Australian and international market with bdna’s industry-leading transformation methodology. Working in true partnership with and across Australia’s public safety organisations, bdna continues to support Australia’s policing services as they fulfil their core mission; keeping Australians safe and as we fulfil ours, to improve society.
Accurate records management within a single integrated platform is critical to all policing organisations. This provides a key single source of truth for police departments, supporting improved system reliability and data quality, streamlining process, and improving access to information for police staff and frontline officers.
Bdna has delivered multiple major core records management implementations to policing organisations across Australia. As of 2023, bdna has worked with several Australian police jurisdictions to transform their operations to provide optimised intelligence about people, places, and property, to frontline and departmental personnel, ensuring they have everything they need to do their work – protecting the public, safely.
How bdna transformations support Australian policing
Increased functionality:
Major transformations and technology implementations provide increased functionality to some of our most vital public services. As emerging digital technologies continue to provide increasing capability, the importance of updating and transitioning away from ageing systems is crucial to maintain and improve service quality.
Technology is continually evolving and can provide a streamlined and centralised system via a single platform that optimises reporting, reduces double or triple-handling of data entry, and enables information-flow across multiple disciplines and departments. Improved and new systems provide measurable productivity uplifts through increased efficiency, while providing new standards in system reliability, audit and security functions, and data quality.
Heightened information access:
Police and public safety departments are multidisciplinary organisations with cross-functional units, processing significant amounts of data that inform reporting, enable tactical operations and improve overall safety. Bdna’s work to deliver these transformations have provided powerful new search and information sharing capabilities to frontline police, allowing personnel to access and search multiple datasets through partial and full phrase searches.
Frontline personnel can also add their own alerts, visible to others in real time. The system also provides access to associated materials, increasing necessary information-sharing.
How interoperability supports policing:
Interoperability has become an essential system capability as government departments and organisations transition away from ageing, siloed systems in favour of integration.
Bdna has delivered transformations that provide powerful, real-time reporting and data access, facilitating collaboration and data sharing with integrated services, departments, and external organisations. Replacing legacy systems with interoperable technology removes silos within organisations and between multiple external agencies that are all working towards the same goal.
This increased level of visibility between departments and bodies drives effective communication, expediates decision-making, and supports collaboration. Robust interoperability enables personnel to leverage high quality data, driving positive outcomes for all those involved, and overall organisation performance. These outcomes keep our communities and frontline personnel safer.
Future-proofed technology
Transformation and change implementations are dynamic and responsive by nature, providing operational functionality and capability to meet emerging requirements. As technology and capability needs evolve, operating systems must be scalable to accommodate future growth and implementations. Bdna delivers robust and scalable systems ready for further development and expansion, providing value for money, and ensuring mission critical systems are safe guarded against future redundancy.
Bdna and policing system transformations
Bdna is collaborating with police and public safety organisations to deliver modern, centralised information systems providing increased functionality, high quality data, heightened information access, interoperability, and future-ready capability to meet emerging challenges and opportunities. Our work delivering major transformations and system implementations brings policing and public safety departments closer together – ensuring our police forces are empowered to perform their services as efficiently as possible, and the Australian public continue to benefit from world-class policing.
