{"id":3212,"date":"2011-06-10T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2022-12-26T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T18:49:31","slug":"victoria-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Police Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d –\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n

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Victoria Police Department <\/strong>– Australia
\nProject :<\/strong> LINK
\nProject type<\/strong> :\u00a0Law enforcement assistance program
\nDate :<\/strong> Apr 2011 Cost :<\/strong>$100M AUD<\/p>\n

Synopsis :<\/strong>
\nProject aimed at implementing a new Law Enforcement Assistance Program to replace an 18 year old system are suspended for 6 months due to technical and cost related issues. \u00a0The implementation of a package system from a Canadian company ran into difficulty due to the complexity of integrating it with other existing systems. \u00a0Victoria Police IT director Michael Vanderheide issued a statement saying\u00a0“A detailed analysis has indicated that, based on the current approach and utilising existing resources, integrating the 20-plus systems that need to be joined with LINK will be a more technically challenging and costly process than was envisioned in the original business case”. \u00a0Details of costs are not officially released, but reports indicate costs to be in the order of $100M<\/p>\n

Contributing factors as reported in the press:<\/strong>
\nUnderestimation of complexity. \u00a0Difficulty integrating new system with existing systems.<\/p>\n

See also<\/strong> (Failed Justice system project) :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Criminal Justice Enhancements Program (CJEP)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Ombudsman slams government project management<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Police database ‘would have cut crime’<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d –\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Victoria Police Department – Australia Project : LINK Project type :\u00a0Law enforcement assistance program Date : Apr 2011 Cost :$100M AUD Synopsis : Project aimed at implementing a new Law Enforcement Assistance Program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,77],"tags":[129,93,147],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","category-why-projects-fail","tag-failed-project","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9441,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/9441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}