pam is already in use for police force collaboration across the country and is enabling a range of other operational initiatives for forces and their partners too. Another force collaboration has also just started using the platform. Following successes in Dorset with police and partners collaborating in pam for Civil Contingency Unit and Local Resilience Forum work, pam is now being used for the South West police collaboration too.

The platform harnesses many of the collaboration capabilities expressed in my book Alliance Brand, which I will soon be serialising on my new website. I touch on it in this post but if you would like a copy of the book to aid your collaboration efforts now please get in touch at the bottom of the page.

pam is greatly assisting in managing our Alliance Programme

Chief Constable Andy Parker (now retired)

Our work supporting collaboration started with Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police 4 years ago and now includes many of the collaborations across the country.

Areas using pam for collaboration include:

• Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police Strategic Alliance
• East Midlands Force Collaboration (Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire)
• Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales Force Collaboration
• Southwest Forensic Collaboration (Dorset, Devon & Cornwall, Avon & Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire)
• West Midlands Regional police collaboration (via ROCU)

you can talk verbally until you’re blue in the face, but with pam the senior management can see progress –

Simon Cherry, Project Manager, West Midlands Police

5 reasons behind this growing trend:

1. Cost & time savings: Significant saving with less travelling, fewer and more focused meetings, less email and office based tools, with less time searching for or duplicating information. Less resource required to coordinate and manage work. Governance, audit and reporting is built in so no time is wasted on project admin and presentation effort to produce highlight reports, minutes and so on.
2. Better decisions, better results: using the rich pam functionality, work gets SMARTER, decisions become clearer, people see the same thing and it leads to better results more quickly.
3. Network connectivity and standards: key parts of the Strategic Policing Requirement, you solve them for free with pam addressing your primary needs. Put simply, as more forces and their partners join the platform, wider collaboration comes at no additional cost. It means best practice projects, programmes, business case templates, approaches to risk management and change (amongst others) can quickly be shared with colleagues from other parts of the country to harmonise standards and lower cost of working when and where it makes sense.
4. Knowledge management: As people move on the corporate memory remains and handovers are easy to manage, meaning people get up to speed more quickly whilst past investments and knowledge are not lost.
5. Trust & Security:Information is managed with a strong security model to assure the confidentiality, integrity and availability to MOPI standards. It is the only platform accredited to PSN and pan government levels for work marked up to Official Sensitive (Restricted & IL3) levels

pam is worth its weight in gold. We work across a region with five different force systems and that can have challenges. Moving offices and virtual working is now so easy we have everything well structured with pam in one secure cloud location.

Phil Whitely, former Chief Superintendent at East Midlands Police Collaboration Unit

We are now looking to extend the collaboration network further and provide more forces and their partners with pam. In doing so we can pass the benefits on to all forces.