Leicestershire Police rolls out NetMotion Mobile Performance software

Leicestershire Police needed a partner that could cope with the drops and glitches in network access. They trialled NetMotion’s software over two weeks and ultimately went live only a month later which highlights the huge difference it made. With overall retention of the connection being much better, they could use all of their applications purely over NetMotion Mobility.

Leicestershire Police now uses NetMotion MPM software to run their full desktop environment over all sorts of networks: 2G, 3G, 4G, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, ADSL. The workforce has the full flavour of what they can do back at base; everything they need is at their fingertips. All the core systems are fully usable out in the field and through the back office, they have access to the 999 emergency systems, reporting, and all the Home Office software as well, enabling them to talk to London and do full crime investigations.

In light of how seamlessly NetMotion’s MPM solution works, Leicestershire Police implemented NetMotion’s software across their organisation enabling officers to remain securely connected in the field, in headquarters, roaming between offices, within offices and home. Within the next six months they plan to add another 500 users bringing them up to a total of 4,000 - every officer in the force and every user will be issued a laptop or tablet with NetMotion installed.

“I can’t really say enough about how much it’s changed the way we do things here,” says White. “It allows our users to be completely agile. We’re not tied down to any location anymore, we can be anywhere at any time, at the drop of a hat. You can imagine the impact, in a force that has to be reactive to things occurring. Work that had to be done at base can now be completed in the field.”