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There are 39 police stations in Avon and Somerset at present. But SouthWest One, of which the police are founder members, want to "streamline" the service. If they get their cost-cutting way the number of police stations with "inquiry desks" will fall to 19. The back office staff - the clerks who deal with the public - will be thinned out and disposed of. IBM have an undistinguished track record when it comes to the police. I invite you to read two accounts of their costly cock up over fingerprinting:

 

“The Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Consortium, comprising more than three-quarters of Britain’s police forces, has sued IBM over an electronic fingerprinting system they claim doesn’t work. The system, purchased in 1992, is supposed to match fingerprints taken from a crime scene with those on file in a database. The group is seeking unspecified damages from Big Blue, and has canceled its contract, citing ’serious and long-standing failures in the service.’ Meanwhile, IBM insists the system works, pointing out that more than 125,000 fingerprints have been matched since it was installed. IBM plans to fight the lawsuit. (Wall Street Journal 3/31/95 B8)”

 

Well the case DID go ahead..... as IBM's lawyer admits on her website:

 

"IBM United Kingdom Limited in a highly publicised multi-million pound dispute regarding the provision of an Automatic Fingerprint Recognition System to a network of 37 UK police forces resuklted in a satisfactory settlement after 20 days in trial in the Technologogy and Construction Court in 1998."

 

IBM paid a substantial, but undisclosed sum, to settle this case quietly.

 

 

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