by Peter Loader | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorised
Recent attendance at a simulation user group conference led me to think about how a Digital Twin for Police might work. A digital twin can be thought of as a virtual model of a real life process connected by a 2-way data flow. Its purpose is to enable proposed...
by Peter Loader | Mar 28, 2025 | Erlang, Software
Three ErlangCalc demonstration videos have been published on the Insights with Acumen YouTube channel. These showcase our newly released ErlangCalc software, the first in a series of tools designed to support Productive and Effective Demand Management. Links to the...
by Peter Loader | Jan 21, 2025 | Policing
“Improvements made to DBS check delays” is the headline to a BBC article that I read recently. The article goes on say that the backlog in Sussex Police has been reduced from 13,000 to 9,600 with the average time to process applications reducing from 92...
by Peter Loader | May 15, 2024 | National Statistics
From January 2024 the Office of National Statistics changed how it calculated expected deaths. This impacts on reporting of excess deaths statistics and I thought it would be interesting to understand the impact and assess the new method. One interesting effect is...
by Peter Loader | Mar 25, 2024 | Policing
Up to 38 million hours of police time, equal to over 21,358 officers, can be freed up over the next 5 years is the headline finding from the Policing Productivity Review report published by the Home Office in November 2023. My insight into the review draws on...
