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Police IT system 'pushed us to the edge' (Officers played by actors)

A police IT system is "unfit for purpose" and causing some criminals to escape justice, officers have told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
Nine forces in England and Wales use Athena, which promised to speed up the detection of crimes.
But officers say it regularly crashes and is overly complicated, meaning some cases are not built in time or dropped.
Developers Northgate Public Services apologised for problems "in small areas", which it says it is fixing.
A joint response from the nine police forces said Athena - which has cost £35m over the past 10 years - had been "resilient and stable, although no system is perfect".

The system was introduced following a government directive for forces to share intelligence after the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, in 2002.
Officers say the intelligence-sharing function works well but problems arise when they use the system to build cases for the Crown Prosecution Service.
The delays it causes means officers can struggle to get the information together in time to charge suspects or the cases are not up to a high-enough standard and are dropped.
Serving officers at Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex told the programme the process could now take up to twice as long.
We have not named the officers because they could face disciplinary action for speaking out. Their comments included:
The nine forces - which also include those in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire and West Mercia - said in a joint statement that they had been working with the supplier to identify and correct issues as they arose.
"Over the 12 months up to November 2018, there have only been 72 hours of total downtime and there are detailed plans in place of how to manage business when this occurs."
Northgate Public Services, which created Athena, said 40,000 officers accessed the system and benefited from improved criminal intelligence.
But it said it was working to make improvements to the "complex system".
"We recognise there are a small number of areas of the solution where improvements can be made and we apologise for any difficulties this has caused.
"We are working hard with the customer and other parties to make these improvements as a priority." Follow the Victoria Derbyshire programme on and - and see more of our stories . Source: bbc.com