20/11/2005 WPC achieves Investors in People recognition.

WPC Software Ltd has officially been recognised as meeting the latest (2004) Investors in People standard.

Investors in People is a proven framework for delivering business improvement through an organisation’s people. It sets a standard for good practice in matching what people can do, and are motivated to do, with what the organisation needs them to do to meet business and customer needs.

03/10/2005 TOCSIN - FIRE: HELPS REDUCE FALSE ALARMS

Tocsin - Fire is a software application being developed to implement the CFOA's policy for monitoring and managing Remotely Monitored Fire Alarm Systems (RMFAS). It will allow Fire Services to manage alarm, alarm company, alarm receiving centre and alarm call records.

WPC Software, has for some time supplied the TOCSIN system to help police manage monitored intruder alarms. With the publication of the CFOA's policy around the reduction of false alarms, we have had increasing interest in this system, from the fire service.

20/09/2005 NEW INTERFACE AIDS SEARCH FOR MISSING PEOPLE

A new interface is helping police speed up the exchange of information between COMPACT - Misper and the National Missing Persons Helpline (NMPH).

The interface is a secure link that automatically transfers police information about missing persons cases to the NMPH in the charity's own computer format, together with the investigating officer's contact details.

The new COMPACT - Misper interface is being used by both the Gloucestershire and Leicestershire constabularies to share details of low, medium and high-risk cases with the London-based charity.

06/07/2005 LYNX HELPS FORCE INVESTIGATION TEAMS

WPC Software is launching its latest software application to help UK police forces work towards effective policing. LYNX is an intelligence tool designed to help investigating teams manage small to medium sized operations. During its development we have been working very closely with a UK police force to ensure LYNX fulfils the needs of a number of departments.

The program is aimed at targeted operations and allows telephone transactions (from the many communication service providers) to be imported and analysed. The import utility enables filtering of specific calling or called numbers, talk and SMS. Telephone records can be created automatically during the import procedure and as soon as all communications have been processed a graphical representation of them is available.

01/07/2005 INN KEEPER IS NUMBER ONE CHOICE FOR LICENSING OFFICERS

Nearly half the police forces in England have now bought WPC's popular Inn Keeper licensing software which has been updated to comply with new legislation.

The latest forces to buy Inn Keeper are Norfolk, Humberside, Lincolnshire, West Mercia, Lancashire, Bedfordshire, and the Ealing, Sutton and Southwark areas of the Metropolitan Police. This increases the number of Inn Keeper customers to 19.

15/06/2005 SHOGUN BANG UP TO DATE

Version 8.1 of WPC's Shogun firearms licensing system has been updated to comply with changes to explosives legislation which came into effect in April 2005.

Changes have been made to the explosives forms and functionality, including an increase in the field length for the description. This allows full names to be given rather than abbreviations, as required under the new legislation. This updated version is available now for all Shogun customers.

01/06/2005 WILTSHIRE PILOTS RTC SYSTEM

WPC Software is helping Wiltshire Constabulary speed up the process of dealing with road traffic collisions (RTCs). The force urgently needed to replace the system used to record and store details of RTCs and turned to WPC for help. The previous, stand alone system had become outdated and a more user friendly, efficient and networked solution was required.

The new RTC Indexing system provides a direct link to WPC's Ferret document management software, enabling documents relating to incidents to be stored together with details about the individuals involved.

01/06/2005 HERTFORDSHIRE BUYS INCA

Hertfordshire Constabulary has purchased WPC's INCA system to manage its new stock of incapacitant sprays.

INCA was developed from our TrakCS system, already used by the Leicestershire and Staffordshire forces. This year a number of UK police forces are expected to replace their CS Sprays with a new synthetic pepper spray called PAVA.

01/06/2005 VEHICLE RECOVERY SOFTWARE LAUNCHED AT ACPO

WPC Software officially launched its new vehicle recovery computer system at the ACPO 2005 International Police Conference and Exhibition in Birmingham .

The new software system, which has been purchased by West Midlands Police and Staffordshire Constabulary, is suitable for any multi-agency car clear scheme where local authorities, police, fire brigades and vehicle recovery operators combine resources.

18/02/2005 COMPACT LAUNCHED TO COMPLY WITH NEW ACPO GUIDELINES

During the last four years our COMPACT system (originally known as IMPACT) has gone from strength to strength.

COMPACT is now the most widely used software solution for Missing Persons within the Police Services in the UK . The system complies with the ACPO Manual of Guidance and through the continued input of its wide user group base it remains operationally configured...

09/02/2005 FOUR NEW INN KEEPER FORCES

With a new era having just started for the world of licensing, police forces in England and Wales are preparing themselves for the potential banana skins arising from the new Licensing Act.

Consequently, the interest shown in WPC Software's licensing application, Inn Keeper, has grown rapidly...

17/01/2005 ELVIS JOINS STAFFORDSHIRE POLICE

Staffordshire Police is the first force to install ELVIS-VR (the Easy Link Vehicle Information System for Vehicle Recovery), a new development from WPC to help manage the recovery of abandoned, damaged and stolen vehicles.

The force has purchased the software for use by the Vehicle Recovery Unit and its twelve vehicle recovery contractors. ELVIS-VR will be used for the administration of all vehicles removed from the county's roads, including stolen vehicles that have been recovered and wrecks from road traffic accidents...