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Tessa Lambri

Start of Studies: December 2011
Country: UK
Supervisor(s):Dr Louise Cooke and Dr Tom Jackson
E-mail: t.lambri@lboro.ac.uk

Research Group: Information science

Title: Police National Database – Technology Acceptance and the Advancement of Knowledge Sharing Processes in the police organisation

The PhD study is researching the implementation and impact of the Police National Database (PND), which was launched by the Home Office in June 2011. The PND is an intelligence system that enables all police forces in the UK, the Child Exploitation Online Protection Agency and the Serious Organised Crime Agency to have access to a shared and secure database. The PND represents unprecedented change in how police forces acquire information and intelligence from other forces, and subsequently has evoked significant changes in how the police conduct their business. For many years, the police organisation has recognised that it needs to share operational information and intelligence through one system – the PND facilitates the opportunity to do so. The PhD research focuses on business change management and business process re-engineering in the police organisation. The research aims to contextually explore how the the acceptance and utilisation of new technology has contributed to the advancement and leveraging of knowledge, and how the PND has impacted on improving knowledge-sharing processes in the organisation.

Tessa has a background in Criminology and has previously worked as an intelligence analyst for Hertfordshire and Essex police forces.