的 National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) 在加强其国家协调能力方面达到了另一个重要里程碑，将其水星数字平台重新平台到 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. 该平台使英国各地的部队能够有效地协调应对全球重大事件的努力. This strategic work puts the platform on a secure footing for the future, 确保改进的可伸缩性, 安全, 和可用性.
NPoCC，由 National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), plays a crucial role in coordinating national law enforcement efforts. It uses the Mercury platform to manage and coordinate over 5,000 mutual aid requests annually from police forces across the UK, supporting collaborative resourcing, planning and operations during daily and large-scale events, 特别行动, 以及国家紧急情况. 最近的活动包括英国女王伊丽莎白二世的国葬、查尔斯三世的加冕典礼、英国王室的葬礼 COP26 Climate conference in Glasgow，和 英联邦运动会 在伯明翰.
In response to near end-of-life hosting infrastructure，和 need for increased resilience and 安全, NPoCC partnered with Informed Solutions to re-platform and future-proof this critical service. 的 project’s key objectives included decommissioning the on-premises data centre, ensuring end-to-end service 安全, minimising downtime and enabling cost-effective scaling during globally significant events.
成功的平台重组需要在广泛的关键利益相关者群体中进行有效的领导和详细的依赖管理, 包括NPoCC, 警察数码服务, Aristi (independent cyber 安全 assurance), Warwickshire Police (providing critical connectivity), and JML Software Solutions (for force HR system integration). Informed Solutions applied a highly collaborative approach, managing a complex delivery through a PRINCE2 Agile-aligned method, 在一个可控和风险管理的框架内，它提供了探索和抓住优化和改进机会的灵活性.
的 project also benefitted from the adoption of AWS’s Police Assured Landing Zone (PALZ); a best-practice architecture to enable police forces to implement cloud technology by deploying a pre-approved, pre-assured blueprint for operating police workloads within the cloud.
Informed Solutions’ AWS Certified architects worked alongside AWS’ own Solutions Architects, 采用AWS最佳实践, and adopting AWS 安全 services. 在整个项目中, 利益相关者管理, 建筑勤奋, 独立专家鉴证在应对新出现的风险和挑战方面发挥了关键作用.
As a result of Informed Solutions’ AWS expertise and highly collaborative, 灵活的交付方式, the Mercury Platform was successfully re-platformed in August 2023, realising benefits for NPoCC including:
- 可扩展性:该解决方案现在可以自动扩展以满足全国活动期间的高峰需求. NPoCC可以在几小时内快速和经济有效地为培训目的建立起和关闭环境(以前这涉及数月的交货时间)。
- 提高性能:使用DevSecOps和基础设施即代码技术，通过实现零停机部署，增强了部署敏捷性, improved disaster recovery capability, and secured faster identification and response to issues through operational monitoring.
- 提高可用性和安全性:云原生和无服务器技术增强了可用性，而AWS安全服务可以不断发展以应对新出现的威胁.
- 面向未来和创新:使用AWS产品可以快速集成新技术和高级数据分析功能.
Following the successful re-platforming of the critical service , Chief Superintendent Matt Lawler, NPoCC的负责人, expressed the importance of this transition, stating: “Mercury is an essential platform for daily and major UK policing operations, and in migrating to the AWS cloud, we’ve taken a significant step forward in the 安全 of the platform. 这种转变不仅提高了效率和可扩展性，而且为集成尖端技术提供了机会. This work is crucial for future-proofing our policing resourcing needs, 确保NPoCC水星服务在未来几年仍处于执法的前沿. Informed Solutions’ AWS expertise and highly collaborative, 灵活的交付方式对取得成功至关重要，我们期待继续开发水星平台，以造福警务工作.”
David Lawton, Technical Director, Informed Solutions 他补充说:“水星平台的持续发展体现了技术在促进协作警务方面的变革力量. We take great pride in our continued partnership with NPoCC, working collaboratively to enhance and adapt the Mercury platform’s capabilities. 这一最新的战略重新平台进一步增强了NPoCC的安全态势和利用创新新技术的能力.
“Large-scale strategic projects like this require collaboration and innovation but, 以正确的方式交付, 当涉及到将国家规模的关键服务迁移到云上时，它们也展示了可能性的艺术. 我们非常自豪能够继续支持NPoCC，并帮助它保持在警务领域创新的前沿.”
