The hi-tech police IT system that proved to be a tragic comedy

The zł.40 million cutting-edge IT Command and Control operational system that was activated in 2001 has turned out to be virtually unused. Police officers do not turn on the laptops they have in their cars, because they do not want to get a new call, while others simply took the computers home. Digital cameras that were installed in the city failed to record a murder of a homeless person and a teenager because one was broken and the second was not even turned on. It seems no one really administrates the system, as for months no one noticed it was broken and that data it stored was lost. How the system is working in the remaining two cities where it was installed (Warsaw and Szczecin) will soon be investigated by a special inspection. (Gazeta Wyborcza p. 1) M.G.