Project Aims
The Co-ordinating Information Technology and Management Information project (CIMI) is one of five projects included in the Making Justice Work (MJW) programme.
CIMI is an important element in helping the MJW programme obtain fast, cost effective criminal justice. It will develop and operate a strategic platform for information management and data exchange across the criminal justice system, so that the right people have access to the right information at the right time.
The project will consider all information technology and management information across the criminal justice system (from offence to disposal and offender management) with the purpose of agreeing a common set of information technology priorities, objectives and actions. The project will focus on:
bringing benefits to operational service delivery;
delivering information to managers that will help them identify areas for development as part of building a culture of performance and capability for change and improvement;
allowing information to be shared securely and without the threat of compromise;
devising an approach that operates at the lowest possible cost, and where supported by business case, make best-use of electronic transactions;
where practicable, and having due regard to legislation governing data protection and information sharing; maintaining and disseminating information from 'the primary source', avoiding duplicating elsewhere in the system, and;
ensuring that system-wide information technology testing arrangements are devised and operated so the impacts of potential changes are understood before they are made