UK Police Service WARP (PolWARP)
With the police service forming part of the Critical National Infrastructure it is vital that the network infrastructure of the police service is robust.
PolWARP has been set up to provide the UK police service with a central point of focus for the protection of its national and local infrastructure. The WARP is supported by the Association of Chief Police Officers in England and Wales and Scotland.
PolWARP provides central advice and guidance on information assurance, incident reporting, and security alerts by building upon existing arrangements provided by staff from the National Policing Improvement Agency. It will encourage the sharing of lessons learnt from security incidents and continue to make valuable use of the high degree of expertise already in place in the police service security and network community.
It is not a public facing facility and the WARP will be utilising the secure police extranet known as the CJX (Criminal Justice Extranet) to provide its warning and alerting services. A secure police service facing 'PolWARP website' has been set up. It has CPNI documents, GovCertUK information, HMG and CESG documents and security incident information to name a few. PolWARP intends to make use of the FWA software at some time in the future.
Using a capability set up by its national network suppliers, Cable and Wireless, polWARP can broadcast messages to specific addresses in all forces and agencies to notify forces of any incident that may affect them. This facility is inward facing and cannot be accessed from the internet.
PolWARP is now functioning and the services to support it are in place.
