WPC Software Limited, a leader in emergency services software, has announced the release of ELVIS to help Police Stolen Vehicle Squads manage the complex administration of vehicles, and the process of inputting details onto the Police National Computer (PNC) more efficiently.

ELVIS, or Easy Link Vehicle Information System, is a powerful software package designed to simplify the administration of vehicles examined by specialist squads or circulated on the Police National Computer. ELVIS was developed in partnership with Merseyside Police to ensure it meets the high demands of today's specialist Stolen Vehicle Squads.

ELVIS catalogues and runs comprehensive reports on vehicles that have been stolen, found, removed, released or relicensed. It also runs exam and history reports for a vast range of public and commercial vehicles.

Where the system comes into its own is its ability to give supervisors facilities to manage vehicle examinations actively,

ELVIS was built with the user in mind. It allows simple user-defined searches, PNC reports, Vehicle Exams and Histories to be executed from one screen. In less than thirty minutes I learnt the basics of the system. The system is a superb intelligence source about a particular vehicle, which is available force-wide.

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Users find ELVIS similar to popular Windows packages with simple menus, toolbars and dropdown lists, which reduce staff input time. The system has the ability to save resources by reducing input time. This will increase significantly with Phase II, which will provide a PNC interface that will completely stop the need for many double keying transactions.

ELVIS takes the form of two integrated applications; a Windows based application with many powerful tools for interrogating the data, and an Intranet application for basic data input and retrieval. Since ELVIS runs in real time on an Intranet, police staff can collaborate, search and update their stolen vehicles database from different workstations. Furthermore, once a report is run, its results can be printed to each constabulary's own reporting templates or directly into DVLA documents.

ELVIS was developed using Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual InterDev and can run on SQL Server, Oracle and Microsoft Access databases. This makes the package flexible, scalable and easy to integrate with existing and future Police IT infrastructure.