{"id":3307,"date":"2012-08-30T18:49:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T22:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:44:09","slug":"british-home-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=3307","title":{"rendered":"British Home Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>British Home Office <\/strong>&#8211; UK<br \/>\n<strong>Project type : <\/strong>Mobile computing implementation<br \/>\n<strong>Project name : <\/strong>Mobile Information Programme (MIP)<br \/>\n<strong>Date :<\/strong> May 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Cost :<\/strong> \u00a3103M<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10164\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Samsung_vs_Blackberry_Brazil.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10164\" src=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samsung_vs_Blackberry_Brazil-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackberry &#8211; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 &#8211; Source: Mpande<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Equipping 41,000 British Police Officers with Blackberry devises was intended to cut down on paperwork, improve efficiency and allow officers to spend more time on the beat. \u00a0Savings from the plan were projected to be\u00a0\u00a3125M per year, but in the end benefits of just\u00a0\u00a3600,000 were realized. An investigation by the Public Accounts Committee found that the project simply focused on getting the devices into the hands of officers rather than focusing on business benefits. \u00a0Although there were some successes, following deployment some police stations reported that officers actually spent more time in the police station rather than on the beat, a complete reversal of the intended outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press:<\/strong><br \/>\nFailure to perform an effective cost benefit analysis. \u00a0Failure to establish measures of success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-18259621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackberrys for police scheme fails to cut costs, say MPs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201213\/cmselect\/cmpubacc\/129\/12903.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mobile Technology in Policing &#8211; Public Accounts Committee<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. British Home Office &#8211; UK Project type : Mobile computing implementation Project name : Mobile Information Programme (MIP) Date : May 2012 Cost : \u00a3103M Synopsis : Equipping 41,000 British Police Officers with Blackberry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,77],"tags":[97,100,130,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","category-why-projects-fail","tag-examples-of-failed-it-project","tag-examples-of-failed-projects","tag-government","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\/3307","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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10165,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/10165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}