2007

Crown Computing has announced that the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) has awarded a contract to provide Open Options, a new workforce management system. The system will be implemented across 15 UK sites. The contract was awarded to Crown through Computacentre and via the Office for Government Commerce Framework.

With around 800 police officers and staff, the CNC works in partnership with nuclear operators and Home Office Forces. Operational Units are located at 15 sites throughout England, Scotland and Wales and CNC Headquarters, which is based at Culham in Oxfordshire. The Open Options Duty Planning System will replace an aging legacy workforce planning system and provide a single, force-wide solution that can be accessed from all 15 of CNC’s operating sites. The new system, known as Project Domino within CNC, will provide a corporate-wide environment for:

• Improvements in the scheduling of duty officers
• Better management of overtime, leave and other abstractions
• High visibility of labour costs across the force
• Improved absence management processes

Sgt Mark Taylor, Domino Project Manager, at CNC says “The Open Options solution will represent a major step forward in our ability to manage and deploy our officers in the most effective and efficient manner. A comprehensive networked solution is vital to our organisation which deploys Police Officers at civil nuclear sites in England, Scotland and Wales.” The system can be integrated fully with CNC’s existing SAP Human Resources processes and is expected to reduce administrative processes significantly. Deployment of the new solution will begin in April 2007 with completion expected early in the autumn.

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