With an abundance of aging technology from the 1980s, Montreal’s police force was finding it increasingly difficult to effectively use IT as part of its efforts to fight crime. The outfit was looking for something to help improve its officers’ response times, performance, radio coverage and to make more sense of the information they were receiving.
“We could not update the technical side of [the old] system. We were looking for data compression, encryption [and] a very secure network,” said Andr
