The NPIA’s strategy for a centralised system is supported by The Home Affairs Committee.

Despite the recent criticism of centralising IT in the NHS, MPs have called for plans to centralise UK police IT systems to be protected.

As the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) remarked, there is currently a “duplication of investment and effort.” The NPIA’s Information Systems Improvement Strategy would see hundreds of systems replaced with nationally available services.