telent to enhance police safety in London

Metropolitan Police Commission one of the largest Automated Personal Location Systems in the world

31 March 2008 – telent, a leading provider of technology services, today announced it has been selected to provide the Metropolitan Police with cutting-edge technology that will enhance the safety of the Service’s 31,000 officers. The deployment of the technology – an Automated Personal Location System (APLS) – is one of the largest of its kind in the world. The APLS will enable operators in the Service’s operations centres to identify the location of each police officer.

“Safety is a primary concern for all police forces,” said Nigel Lee, Supra Workstream Manager at the Metropolitan Police Service. “The area served by our force covers 620 square miles; knowing the location of our officers means that not only can we provision resource more effectively, but, should an officer need assistance, we can get to them even more quickly.”

telent is to act as the primary contractor for the APLS and will design the system, install it and roll it out across the Metropolitan Police Service by July 2008. telent will work with Frequentis, a specialist in communication and information systems for safety-critical areas, to deliver the contract. Together the two companies have worked with the Metropolitan Police Service since June 2005, during which time they have delivered an Integrated Communications Control Service (ICCS) for the Metropolitan Police Service and currently provide a maintenance contract which runs until 2014.

“telent has proved its ability to provide mission critical communications networks for the emergency services across the UK,” said Dave King, General Manager of Emergency Services at telent. “Communications are vital to many organisations, but people’s lives depend on the networks operated by police, fire and ambulance services and we are proud to be able to deliver the level of quality, reliability and flexibility that they need.”

Approved by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) to provide telecommunications solutions, telent works with emergency services across the UK.

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About telent:

telent supplies a broad range of communications support services to telecommunications operators, as well as to large enterprises and government agencies in the UK and Germany, leveraging its accumulated knowledge of customers’ networks, its expert field force, its scale and reputation for quality.

Additional information about telent can be found at www.telent.com

About Frequentis AG:

Frequentis AG a global operating company has worked in the UK market since 1992 through its subsidiary Frequentis UK Ltd., when the contract for the equipment of the world’s largest air traffic control headquarters (NERC) was signed. Having processed a series of major contracts in both the civilian and military air traffic control areas, Frequentis has successfully diversified into the fields of Public Safety, Transport and Maritime sectors. The efforts in the Public Safety market were crowned with success in March 2005, when Frequentis was selected by the London Metropolitan Police Service to deliver as Prime Contractor one of the world’s largest integrated communication and CCTV technology programmes this decade. Complimented with an eight years’ Managed Service Support contract, this is one of the largest Public Safety Systems in the world and based on the companies’ performance on the project, Frequentis is the first company to receive a commendation from the MPS Directorate of Information with a letter of congratulations from Commissioner Sir Ian Blair.

For further information about Frequentis AG please see www.frequentis.com.