Nottinghamshire Police has recently launched Operation Shield to help fight alcohol related crime in the county. A key feature of this initiative is to build a database of all licensed premises, licensees and door staff in the Force area, which can be accessed 24 hours a day by operational officers. WPC Software from Keynsham, Bristol is providing an enhanced version of its Inn Keeper software package to meet this requirement. As well as the basic data, Inn Keeper will record all police visits to premises and record all crimes in or around licensed premises.

Acting Inspector Paul Winter of Nottinghamshire Police said: "Nottinghamshire Police has been successful in securing £1.2 Million from the Home Office Crime Reduction Programme to tackle alcohol related town centre violence. To do this effectively we need accurate records of police visits and incidents connected with licensed premises. These need to be available to all operational officers 24 hours of the day. Inn Keeper will allow operational officers to access this information at all times and will enable us to be more pro-active in our approach to licensing issues."

Alan Walker, the Managing Director of WPC said: "The Nottinghamshire Police order is very important to WPC. Inn Keeper has always been an excellent system, for the administration of liquor licensing. This contract, and the recent installed Hertfordshire Constabulary system, has enabled us to evolve Inn Keeper into an essential operational tool for the whole Force. Inn Keeper is now in use with six UK polices forces and we anticipate further orders this year."

WPC supply a growing number of software applications to police organisations and now have 54 systems installed with 24 different forces.