Testimonials

West Midlands PoliceWest Midlands
Detective Superintendent Derek Forest of West Midlands Police said:

'COMPACT has enabled us to streamline our entire missing persons process and has helped West Midlands Police make great savings in manpower and resources

Persistent runaways from local authority homes had been a major problem for us. Because the COMPACT system operates in real time our officers can see how many times they have gone missing before, set a risk assessment and even suggest places to look for them based on previous enquiries. Having accurate information, that can be quickly accessed, has helped us achieve a huge reduction in this type of missing persons case.'


Inspector Gary Bullock of the Roads Policing, Operations Department at West Midlands Police said:

'ELVIS has made it possible to take the vehicle recovery scheme back in-house with minimal staffing by fully interfacing with our command and control system.

For the first time we will have real-time information available on the status and location of every vehicle seized by our force. Not only will ELVIS improve the service we provide to the public by releasing their vehicle quicker, but also greatly assist in crime pattern analysis.'


Inspector Gary Bullock, of the Roads Policing, Operations Department at West Midlands Police, said:

'Since introducing the ELVIS-VR system the number of unlicensed and abandoned vehicles recovered by the force has jumped from about 23,000 a year to 38,000 - an increase of about 70 per cent.

At the same time we have reduced the number of people engaged in vehicle recovery from 23 full and part-time staff to just three. These staff have now been able to take on other duties because of the time saved by the software.

Not only does ELVIS-VR provide real-time information on the status of every vehicle seized by our force, it also allows us to deal with a lot more vehicles with far fewer staff and speeds up communications with our disposal agents.

ELVIS has also greatly assisted the force in crime pattern analysis - helping us to identify problem hotspots where vehicles are regularly dumped or abandoned - and enables us to reunite members of the public with their vehicles much more quickly.'