Atos has been selected by the Metropolitan Police to provide its service integration and management (SIAM) tower.

The contract includes the provision of the SIAM layer, as well as service desk and management services. Chris Naylor, director of digital policing at the Met Police, said that this partnership offers a “wealth of experience in managing the SIAM Towers” as well as a “change in the way the department delivers IT”.

The Met Police is not the first public body to implement the SIAM tower model – the Ministry of Justice and Transport for London is in the middle of a SIAM implementation. However, this new contract increases the number of services outsourced by the Met Police, which already include human resources, payroll and finance functions.

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