NADIP Plenary - DORS

Stephen ColeProduct ManagerHome Office PCD

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Home Office PCD

● NPIA Technology Product Management Unit (TPMU) transitioned to Home Office Police ICT Company Directorate (PCD) in October 2012

● Affects the way work is commissioned by Forces

● Moving towards a “full-cost-recovery” model

● New contact details:● Stephen.cole@homeoffice.pnn.police.uk● Telephone: 020 3113 7670● Mobile: 07785 996 562

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Highlights since last Plenary

● DORS V3.0.1 released in April

● Successful Back Up / Restore testing in May

● Serious performance issues for InDORS starting in June

● 500,000 obsolete Offender records deleted

● DORS reaccreditation in September

● PentiP rollout commences – BTP first force to go live in June 2012

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DORS Performance Issues

● Mostly affecting InDORS

● Specified for 200,000 new offender records per annum but exceeding this every two months

● Average of 5,000 offender records added every working day

● Hardware procured in 2008 – compatibility issues

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DORS Performance Issues

● What have we done?● Re-indexing of the DORS databases● Deletion of 500,000+ obsolete offender records● Commissioned Capacity Planning report from WTG● Identified unnecessary Fujitsu monitoring service (which has been

switched off)● Further application tweaks currently in testing

● What are we doing?● Procuring additional hardware (SAN) for both InDORS & OutDORS● Investigating a Tech Refresh / re-platforming● Looking at the current hosting arrangement● Reviewing DR / BC requirements● New release of DORS

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DORS V3.0.2

● RFC324 OutDORS Status Change Web-Service● Enable Course Suppliers to query DORS for all records which have

been updated to Offer Withdrawn in a specified date range● Will only receive a response for those records linked to a Course

● RFC335 ITHC Outstanding Issues● Low & Medium issues from IT Health Check on V3.0 (Aug ’11)

● RFC363 Removal of NPIA Logo● Required as a result of transition to Home Office

● Release not yet scheduled – priority to SAN implementation

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DORS V3.1

● Content of DORS V3.1 not yet finalised but the following changes are being considered● RFC182 Date Validation● RFC187 Deactivate Course Supplier● RFC188 Course Look-up● RFC254 Obsolete DDL Values● RFC275 Edit Client Status● RFC278 Client – Course Link Web-service● RFC280 Unclosed Records Report● RFC289 Manual Course Edit● RFC319 Error Messages● RFC328 Password reset

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PentiP Rollout

● BTP first force to use PentiP in June

● Rolled out to Business Assurance Forces in July● Leicestershire● Kent● Lancashire

● Now in use at 9 Forces with 5 more to be implemented before Christmas (Welsh Forces & Essex)

● Full National Rollout will commence in 2013

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PentiP & Data Sharing

● PentiP is a national system which replaces VP/FPO

● PentiP has GPMS marking of RESTRICTED

● All personal & offence data extracted from PentiP is therefore also RESTRICTED

● Implication on data transferred to & stored by Course Suppliers

● No default report for this data transfer. Reports have to be authorised individually

● Currently “discourage” business practice

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Thank you for your support …

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