Humberside Police have signed off on a seven-year contract extension with Unisys, a global ITO provider.

Under the terms of the deal, which extends an existing three and a half year relationship, Unisys will work to support and extend the capabilities of CIS4, the fourth incarnation of the Humberside’s Criminal and Intelligence System.

The CIS4 system works by combining vital information from units responsible for crime, intelligence and domestic violence whilst interfacing with command and control and customer relationship management software. A web-based portal gives officers single-point access to relevant and up to date information.

To date the project involved the migration of 1.4 million crimes, 1.2 million people, and six million intelligence notes, de-duplication of between 500,000 and 600,000 records and population of the integrated database with cleansed legacy data.

Graham Dawson, head of Information Services at Humberside Police, said, “CIS4 is an extremely important project for the Force and for public safety. This program sits at the hub of our operational capability, and we are pleased to draw on Unisys expertise in justice solutions and support services”.

Unisys will support CIS4 primarily in the UK, with an additional support team based offshore at the Unisys global sourcing operations centre in Bangalore, India. This makes Humberside Police the first UK force to use an offshore support model.