News (14)

  • Berzins' blunders: Police ignored tender rules

    Victoria Police's IT division under disgraced chief information officer Valda Berzins had a "disregard for proper procurement and contract management", a new report has revealed, which saw contracts fail to go to tender while their dollar values ballooned beyond approved amounts.

  • Vic Police nabs IT head from ACT shared services

    Victoria Police has appointed Michael Vanderheide, who has been heading up the ACT's shared services department InTACT, as its new executive director infrastructure.

  • New chief to shake up Vic Police IT

    Newly appointed Victoria Police commissioner Simon Overland intends to revamp the operating model for the force's troubled IT division, according to budget estimate documents released earlier this month.

  • Vic Police looks for new CIO

    Victoria Police is searching for a new executive director of infrastructure to take over from the board of management, which had been put in place after former CIO Valda Berzins left the position.

  • Ombudsman targets 'outdated' Vic Police IT

    Victorian Ombudsman George Brouwer has started an investigation into the Victorian Police's IT department and what he has described as its "outdated information technologies that are unsuited to a 21st century approach to policing".

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  • How dirty is Victoria Police's laundry?

    When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.

  • Wanted: IT saviour for Vic Police

    Victoria Police needs to appoint a pinch-hitter chief information officer with a mandate to implement a long-term solid ICT strategy and scrub the bilge from its decks.

  • Managed services: Kinder, gentler outsourcing

    It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.

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