The Department told us that there would be a separate five-year programme for the PND, starting from April 2022.54 The Department said it had been working with the NPCC lead for the PND over the last nine months on a “discovery phase”, developing a strategy of which the key element was currently the refresh of software and hardware. Then there would be the “near-term capability uplifts”. Then they would turn to “realising the original vision of actually having that federated search capability...

The Department told us that there would be a separate five-year programme for the PND, starting from April 2022.54 The Department said it had been working with the NPCC lead for the PND over the last nine months on a “discovery phase”, developing a strategy of which the key element was currently the refresh of software and hardware. Then there would be the “near-term capability uplifts”. Then they would turn to “realising the original vision of actually having that federated search capability across the PNC, PND and then wider datasets across law enforcement into the future as well.” The Department said it would be doing things very different Type: conclusion | Number: 28 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 5.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: April 2022 5.2 The Police National Database (PND) business case is currently being reviewed and refined by key stakeholders. The next steps on this business case are: • Jan