UK Home Office to migrate systems out of police data center

The UK's Home Office is planning to migrate all the systems and services out of a core Police data center located in Hendon, northwest London. The data center is government-owned, and has been home to the Police National Computer - a database of more than 130 million items - for the past 50 years.

The Police National Computer will then be decommissioned from March 2026. The Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS) is cloud-based and forms part of a three-year migration plan. The end goal is for “infrastructure [to be] physically decommissioned, staff based at the data center are moved to alternative offices in line with policy, [and] the data center is handed back to Home Office property services.”

“Any critical interim sustainment works in HDC [must be] managed and delivered prior to exit. Systems and services will be migrated to alternative data centers, cloud, or other destinations the partner will ensure all security, assurance, and accreditation is achieved.”