National Data and Analytics Office (NDAO)

The use and management of data has become essential to modern life and critical to an effective police service.

• Operationally, policing can utilise data to identify offenders, disable criminal networks and safeguard those most vulnerable in society
• Strategically, data can inform policy, highlight trends, and provide evidence and insight to support decision making at the highest, most sensitive level.

Policing collects vast quantities of complex, highly sensitive data.

The National Data and Analytics Office is in place to provide centralised standards, direction, guidance, tools and services and, in doing so, ensuring we reduce duplication of effort and utilise data in a way that is ethical, proportionate and fully compliant with data protection law.

The NDAO will ensure:

• a national framework for data management to ensure consistency across all forces
• evidence led policing that identifies offenders quickly
• insight led decision making to intercept criminal activity sooner, allowing the safeguarding of those most vulnerable to risk and harm without delay
• better performance, productivity and problem solving across the criminal justice system.

Within its analytics function, the NDAO aims to utilise good quality data ethically, to build tools that drive efficiencies and improve our service.

This year, the NDAO is growing, with recruitment underway to fill a variety of different roles and drive this work forward.

You can find out more about these roles, here.