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Lancashire Constabulary has launched one of the UK’s largest police hand-held mobile data trials. 250 police officers and 30 support staff – the entire Lancashire Central Division – will be equipped with O2 Xda II pocket computers from which they can quickly and easily access a host of information sources. In a pre-trial, the process of a missing person report was reduced from two hours to 20 minutes. It is hoped that access to mobile data will enable officers to be more efficient and effective, including spending around an hour per shift longer in the community rather than at the police station.
