Police Data Quality Hub FAQs

We can deploy the app on SaaS, to your own cloud infrastructure, or on-premise. Every police force will have a slightly different environment and processes, and we want to be as flexible as possible to ensure data quality is not a painful process. We do however recommend SaaS, as updates are made by us and this will ensure you have the latest version of the software, with minimal impact on your time.

We can do either. We can connect directly to your database and have it automatically and consistently running. We can connect directly to your database but only run on request, or we can have it separate from your database; where you would extract data, run it through, and then reimport it back into your database yourself.

We are data and environment agnostic. It is a quick and easy configuration with our no-code interface. All we do is take your schema and set it up in the data store to make sure it is correctly mapped to what you expect it to be.

Yes, we ran a proof of concept with Avon & Somerset Police. We have also used the same address-matching techniques for many customers, worldwide. For the Avon and Somerset Police project, a sample dataset of 91,000 records, across Somerset was used. We saw an average 37% increase across the different data quality themes in the number of valid records across the entire dataset, with a particular highlight being a 69% increase in the number of records with a valid UPRN.

Yes. When you subscribe to the hub, you become part of a wider community. When you have a new idea or data requirement we can take your idea, workshop it and trial it and it can be then rolled out as a new app to the entire community. This way not only are you benefiting from your ideas being taken forward but other police forces across the country are too. We are already running a similar style programme for our Emergency Services NG 911 Solution in the US.

It can handle large volumes of data, for example in our recent proof of concept with Avon & Somerset Police we worked on 91,000 records. The products are used in all sorts of different scenarios, processing millions of records in bulk. But you can control this process, and make sure the system is configured to be as unobtrusive as possible to your current data governance processes and teams. It is really up to you whether you want to process your entire system or chunk up the work into smaller batches

It is an easy solution to use but a member of our team will be available to help should you need it. You will also receive an induction to the hub when you purchase the app.

We are data and environment agnostic and we can connect to over 500 different data types.

We licence the hub on a per-app basis to make the hub an affordable and flexible solution. You only pay for what you need as part of your data strategy.  

No, it’s a per-app licence. That app is unlimited use, unlimited amount of data and an unlimited number of people can use it.

There is lots of flexibility and the best option would be to discuss your requirements with our team.