October 2006

Merseyside Police Technology Exhibition

October saw Bluestar attending an Information Systems Technology Exhibition in Liverpool organised by Merseyside Police. The purpose of the exhibition was to showcase, to key members of Merseyside Police, new and emerging technologies. The exhibition was attended by the Chief Constable, the Chief Officers Group, area commanders, departmental heads and a number of other officers and staff from all ranks.

Bluestar exhibited a number of new technologies and enhancements to the Corvus infrastructure including enhanced Corvus Mapping, Neighbourhood Performance and Statistics, Resource Map, Corvus Indexer and Briefing on BlackBerry.

July 2006

West Midlands Police choose Bluestar Briefing and Tasking system

West Midlands police have chosen Bluestar to supply their new Briefing and Tasking System. Bluestar will provide their Corvus product infrastructure running a number of fully integrated applications and modules including the Torc Briefing System and the Endeavour Tasking System. Bluestar will also provide their Single Enterprise View (SEV) module and standard Corvus Search functionality. The new system will revolutionise the way the force deals with daily tasking and briefing, ensuring tasking and briefing follows the National Intelligence Model (NIM) and is more efficient and targeted.

The force has also chosen to implement the Bluestar Prolific and other Priority Offenders (PPO) application which as standard will be fully integrated with other Corvus modules and application including Briefing, Tasking and SEV.

Bluestar provide Management Information and Statistics modules to West Yorkshire Police

Bluestar have provided West Yorkshire Police with a number of custom Management Information and Statistics modules to fulfill several Force and Home Office requirements. The modules include charting, statistics and analysis as well as Home Office reporting (including Crimsec reports). The reports are available in a number of different formats including an on-screen view, comma separated exports and automatic spreadsheet generation and export.

May 2006

Police Expo 2006 Update

Thank you to everyone who took the time to visit our stand at this years International Police Expo. The show gave us an excellent opportunity to demonstrate our new PPO system. The portable DVD Player prize draw has now taken place and the lucky winner this year is Mr P Harris from Derbyshire Police.

March 2006

Mobile Corvus on BlackBerry

Bluestar has delivered an enhanced version of our BlackBerry implementation for Mobile Corvus. This is now available within UK Police Forces to support staff and officers on operational duty. Using the BlackBerry offers secure wireless connection to our Single Enterprise View (SEV) providing powerful search capabilities and access to valuable information held for core date, e.g. offenders, locations and vehicles. With BlackBerry, officers are in constant connection with supporting operational details including crime history, stop & search, outstanding warrants, court results and photographs. More Information...

January 2006

International Police Expo 2006

We are pleased to announce that we will be attending this years International Police Expo at the Birmingham NEC.

This year the exhibition runs from the 9th to the 11th of May. We will be in Hall 8, stand D12. Please contact us if you would like to arrange a meeting during the show, or to find out a little more about the new products we will be demonstrating.