As part of London’s preparations for hosting the forthcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games, work is beginning on enhancing the communications control capabilities of the British capital’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).

Over the next 12 months, Frequentis will work with its partners to extend the MPS’s Integrated Communications Control System (ICCS) and closed-circuit television capability and increase its access to existing hardware. Enhancements will include connection to the Airwave public safety radio network via new Vortex ports and a redesigned graphical user interface incorporating additional camera information and map control for camera selection.

Frequentis is the prime contractor responsible for the development and delivery of the MPS’s current ICCS, which has been in operation since February 2006. The company is also working with Telent to deliver an Automated Personnel Location System (APLS), which will be capable of reporting the location and status of every MPS operational officer. Frequentis is the technology architect, developer and integrator of this system.

Frequentis worked previously on the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, providing a command and control centre with 30 workstations linked to emergency telephone connections, analogue radio systems and a Motorola TETRA infrastructure.