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January 09, 2008
Government scales back roll-out of offender tracking system
Troubled C-NOMIS system will not reach probation service
By Computerworld UK reporter
The government computer system established to track criminal offenders is to be dramatically scaled back following a Ministry of Justice review.
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In a written parliamentary statement, justice minister David Hanson said yesterday that the introduction of the C-NOMIS system for the probation service is to be dropped, though it will still be rolled out to prisons, where it would “drive significant efficiencies."
The system was originally seen as offering an end-to-end platform for the probation and prisons service, as well as justifying the creation of the National Offender Management Service. But since August last year its future has been doubt after the justice ministry suspended development work on the project and ordered a review.
The suspension and review followed a jump in project costs from an original estimate of £234m to more than £500m.
Hanson’s statement yesterday said the prison service would “receive a version of C-NOMIS, which will replace the existing case management system [known as LIDS].” However, no timetable for the roll-out of the system has been confirmed.
With the scaling back of the roll-out to exclude the probation service, Hanson said arrangements would be made “to allow sharing of information between prisons and probation areas through a new mechanism, ‘data share’, which will give read-only access to core case information.”
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