Secure technology for modern policing
Cyber security, compliance, and resilience for UK police forces - supporting mission-critical systems from control room to the front line.
NCSC CAF & Security Assessment for Policing (SyAP)
We help UK forces navigate the Security Assessment for Policing framework, run by the Police Digital Service. Our vetted consultants deliver gap analysis and pragmatic remediation to keep mission-critical systems compliant.
From CAF assessments for OES systems to National Cybercrime Framework strategy, we ensure you can securely connect to national policing systems while maintaining strong information assurance.
- Cyber gap analysis and remediation roadmaps.
- NCSC CAF & NIS Directive readiness assessments.
- Secure interconnects to national policing systems.
- NPPV & SC-cleared consultants embedded with your teams.
Sovereign Cloud & Secure Infrastructure for UK Police Forces
Police data carries a level of sensitivity that makes hosting location a genuine operational and legal question, not just a technical one. Public hyperscale platforms increasingly offer UK regions, but the underlying provider can still be subject to foreign jurisdiction - a distinction that matters when the workload includes command-and-control systems, case management, or digital evidence.
Claranet Sovereign Cloud is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform built and operated entirely in the UK, hosted in ISO 27001-certified UK data centres, and supported by a UK-based team. It gives forces the flexibility of a modern cloud platform - self-service compute, storage and networking - with data that stays within UK borders and a team you can reach directly when something needs attention.
For forces weighing where to host sensitive systems or reviewing existing cloud arrangements as part of a CAF or SyAP assessment, Sovereign Cloud gives information governance teams something concrete to evidence, rather than a vendor promise.
Managed IT, Connectivity & Data for UK Policing
Beyond compliance and cyber resilience, forces need the underlying IT to simply work - reliably, and at the pace operational policing demands. Claranet provides managed IT and resilient network connectivity that keeps control rooms, custody suites and frontline devices online, alongside data and AI capabilities that help forces make sense of the volumes of digital evidence, case data and intelligence they now handle daily.
Whether it's modernising legacy infrastructure, securing connectivity between sites and national systems, or building the data foundations for better decision-making, we work alongside your existing teams rather than replacing them.
Policing doesn't wait. Your tech shouldn't either.
Expectations are high and resilience is non-negotiable. We turn complex IT requirements into operational advantages for UK forces.
Talk to Our UK Policing Cyber Security Specialists
From CAF gap analysis to CREST-accredited penetration testing, our vetted consultants help UK forces protect mission-critical systems and stay compliant.
Or call us on 0330 390 0507
Frequently Asked Questions for UK Policing
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SyAP is the framework used by the Police Digital Service to assess the security maturity of UK policing organisations. It covers everything from information governance to how forces manage risk across their core systems. We help forces prepare for and act on SyAP assessments as part of our wider cyber consultancy and compliance work.
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Yes. Police forces are designated Operators of Essential Services (OES) under the NIS Directive, which means they're legally required to manage risks to their network and information systems and to report significant incidents. The NCSC's CAF is the methodology used to demonstrate that compliance.
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Cyber Essentials is a foundational certification that protects against common cyber threats — useful for a force's own IT estate and for managing supply-chain risk with third-party suppliers. CAF is a deeper, risk-based framework specifically for critical national infrastructure, including essential police services, and is a legal requirement under the NIS Directive. Full detail is on our cyber consultancy page.
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Yes. Our teams working on policing engagements are NPPV and SC-cleared, allowing them to work directly with sensitive police systems and data. Our penetration testers are also CREST-accredited. See how this applies to penetration testing for UK police forces.
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Yes. We provide secure interconnects that let forces connect to national policing systems while maintaining strong information assurance, alongside the gap analysis and remediation work needed to keep those connections compliant.
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CREST accreditation means testing is carried out to an independently assessed standard by vetted professionals — important when testers need access to systems like command and control, case management (e.g. Niche, Athena), or digital evidence. It's a manual, human-led test rather than an automated scan, which matters for finding the kind of complex flaws that scanners miss in critical systems.
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Claranet Sovereign Cloud is hosted entirely in UK data centres, operated by a UK-based team, so data doesn't fall under foreign jurisdiction the way it can with some public cloud providers. For police data — case management, evidence, intelligence — that's a distinction information governance teams are increasingly expected to evidence, not just assume.