The Australian arm of United States geospatial information system (GIS) software company Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) has won a $1.55 million contract with the Western Australian Police Force.
WA Police had tendered for a GIS to support daily operational crime prevention and law enforcement activities, across the world's largest beat, covering 2.62 million square kilometres, with around 150 police stations across eight metro and seven regional districts.
After the tender process, WA Police has opted to remain an Esri Australia customer.
Describing its GIS use as critical, WA Police said its present infrastructure comprises Esri's ArcGIS Portal and servers, alon gwith ArcGIS Monitor, Feature Manipulation Engine Server, structured query language (SQL) platform as a service (PaaS) databases, and other information stores.
With this, WA Police support a wide range of GIS capabilities, including two and three dimensional visualisation, historical and near-realtime analysis, dashboards, as well as web and mobile applications, plus mapping functionality.
Stakeholders who rely on and use GIS include intelligence officers, emergency responders, detectives, frontline officcers and partnering agencies.
WA Police said it wasn't experiencing any "material issues with the current system, apart from the fact that the software licenses and support for the system" were expiring soon.
It is, however, planning to render more GIS capabilities to its users in the future.
In the tender, WA Police had considered a three-option approach, with the first two maintaining its existing GIS platform, including the software and hardware for it.
For the third option, WA Police considered a complete replacement of the existing platform, with a new architure featuring a different hardware and software solution.
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