The move follows the mergers in 2013 of the eight Scottish police forces and eight fire services to form Police Scotland and Scottish Fire and Rescue Service respectively. Both services have now independently chosen Civica’s Tranman software to manage their large national fleets.
Civica’s unrivalled experience of successfully merging systems together, integrating multiple and large datasets into a single database, whilst driving savings, was a key factor in the decision for both organisations.
Civica has previously carried out similar projects before for Norfolk and Suffolk Police, Kent and Essex Police, and most recently a shared system in between three Yorkshire police forces.
Both organisations will be using Tranman’s touchscreen technology in their workshops spread across Scotland, allowing data to be easily input by technicians directly into the system, giving the central teams visibility of current availability and costs immediately.
Stewart Taylor, national fleet manager at Police Scotland, commented: ‘We needed a state of the art system, using the latest technology, to enable us to standardise processes quickly across the new organisation, and ensure maximum efficiency in our operations. Tranman proved to be the system that could not only deliver that now, but as a strategic partner over the long term.’
The latest contracts for Civica mean the company provides national fleet management systems to all three emergency services in Scotland, including the Scottish Ambulance Service, as well as half of the 32 Scottish local authorities.
