Information Technology
The opportunities offered by, and the impact of, information and communications technology have been influencing all areas of life and work for a long time, including day-to-day police work.
Especially for the police, timely and appropriate information management is an indispensable prerequisite for successful and effective action.
Typical police tasks such as collecting, compiling and analysing information can no longer be carried out efficiently in today’s world without the assistance of information technology.
In the future, the importance of information processing for handling day-to-day police and administrative work will continue to increase and become a decisive factor in achieving success. The Bundeskriminalamt recognized this development at an early stage.
By utilizing the most modern technologies, Division IT at the Bundeskriminalamt creates the necessary framework and ensures around-the-clock availability of all information technology facilities.
Increasingly short innovation cycles and the need for compatibility between parts of the IT systems utilized by a wide variety of institutions at national level as well as by international police organizations (such as Interpol, Europol and Schengen) represent the most recent challenges faced by the highly qualified staff of Division IT, who are well prepared to deal with them.
However, the BKA not only serves as the central provider of internal IT services but also performs this task for all the German police forces at both Federation and state level.
To this end, Division IT operates the central electronic information and search system of the German police, INPOL, the analysis and state investigation support system b-case and the case processing system VBS. These modern systems meet the current needs of users by offering them an easy-to-use user surface, the possibility of storing photographs and an option for displaying networks of relationships between persons and objects. In this way, the fight against crime can be made more efficient.