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Novel information sharing architecture between the Police and their community partners.

Uthmani, Omair; Buchanan, William J; Lawson, Alistair

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Omair Uthmani



Abstract

The exchange of information between the police and community partners forms a central aspect of effective community service provision. In the context of policing, a robust and timely communications mechanism is required between police agencies and community partner domains, including: Primary healthcare (such as a Family Physician or a General Practitioner); Secondary healthcare (such as hospitals); Social Services; Education; and Fire and Rescue services. Investigations into high-profile cases such as the Victoria Climbié murder in 2000, the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, and, more recently, the death of baby Peter Connelly through child abuse in 2007, highlight the requirement for a robust information-sharing framework. This presentation presents a novel syntax that supports information-sharing requests, within strict data-sharing policy definitions. Such requests may form the basis for any information-sharing agreement that can exist between the police and their community partners. It defines a role-based architecture, with partner domains, with a syntax for the effective and efficient information sharing, using SPoC (Single Point-of-Contact) agents to control information exchange. The application of policy definitions using rules within these SPoCs is inspired by network firewall rules and thus define information exchange permissions. These rules can be implemented by software filtering agents that act as information gateways between partner domains. Roles are exposed from each domain to give the rights to exchange information as defined within the policy definition. This work involves collaboration with the Scottish Police, as part of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), and aims to improve the safety of individuals by reducing risks to the community using enhanced information-sharing mechanisms.

Citation

Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., & Lawson, A. (2010). Novel information sharing architecture between the Police and their community partners.

Conference Name Scottish Networking Event 2010
Start Date Feb 1, 2010
End Date Feb 1, 2010
Publication Date 2010-02
Deposit Date Jan 6, 2011
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Keywords Information sharing; Police; community partners; data security; federated identity management; scalable architecture; policy;
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4052

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