New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush; New Zealand Police Executive Director of Information, Technology and Systems Anne Speden; Intergraph SG&I New Zealand Country Manager Stephen Willson; and Intergraph SG&I President Steven Cost at the signing of the transfer of rights.
Intergraph has acquired the Intellectual Property rights to OnDuty, a new suite of mobile applications developed in collaboration with New Zealand Police. Under this new agreement for New Zealand Police, Intergraph Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) will further develop and take to market the OnDuty suite to public safety agencies beyond New Zealand. Once commercialised, New Zealand Police would receive royalties for further technology investment and innovation.
Intergraph Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) provides software and systems for emergency response, utilities, transportation and other global challenges. Their work on Zealand Police’s OnDuty application is expected to help streamline workflow and reporting and facilitate greater collaboration. It is designed to optimise policing productivity and provide unified access to information from various police systems.
“The global reach of an organisation such as Intergraph will ensure the best possible exposure for the intellectual property developed in collaboration with New Zealand Police,” said New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush. “We expect that agreements such as this will prove to be a fundamental building block to the further success of our Policing Excellence strategy.”
OnDuty allows officers to easily receive alerts, view information, update statuses, complete paperwork and attach multimedia files from their mobile devices in the field without having to return to station. Any new jobs created or new information added to existing jobs will be instantly accessible and visible to other team members. The first release of OnDuty is scheduled for November 2015, with more tasking functionalities planned over the next 12 months.
OnDuty was developed under the Innovation through Mobility program, a vital part of New Zealand Police’s proactive Policing Excellence strategy. The prototype was created in the police Mobile Innovation Lab and Experience Centre, whose aim is to drive collective innovation among New Zealand Police and its strategic partners, including Intergraph, and the rapid deployment of technologies to benefit day-to-day operational policing.
