Public Service Radio Communications Project (PSRCP)

The PSRCP service will be an outsourced private mobile radio communications service for all the public safety organisations in England, Wales and Scotland. The network infrastructure for the service will be built, owned and operated by BT under the Governments Private Finance Initiative (PFI) guidelines.
BT was awarded the service contract by PITO (Police information Technology Organisation) on behalf of the police forces on the 29th February 2000.

BT is proactively marketing the PSRCP service to other public safety organisations, who will take up the service, if it provides best value against other alternatives in the market place.

The PSRCP service will be designed and built to satisfy the demanding requirements of the emergency services and other public safety organisations. It will provide voice, data and image communications which, from the user perspective, will be seamless across the country and across organisational and geographical boundaries.

The PSRCP service is being developed based on the comprehensive range of requirements, from the customer. Underpinning these are ten high level 'cardinal requirements' which are key drivers for the design of the PSRCP. These are to enable:

• Organisational Flexibility
  
• Operational Flexibility
  
• Wide Radio Coverage
  
• System Availability and Reliability
  
• High capacity with a contracted Grade Of Service
  
• System Management Information
• Highest levels of Security
  
• Highest levels of Inter operability
  
• Ease Of Use
  
• Integration Of Voice and Data Communications and Applications

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PSRCP will offer much more than a traditional radio system. In most cases it will be integrated with existing and future IT systems operated by customers. This will give greater, faster and better quality information to operational officers/employees. This will in turn lead to significant business benefits to customers.

The technology PSRCP (Tetra) provides a far more secure radio system due to its digital characteristics and provides the ability for expansion within a rapidly over-subscribed radio spectrum.