The risk rating of the UK's crime intelligence database is being elevated to "Red" by the governments projects' watchdog as the DB struggles to migrate from a legacy Oracle platform.

The Police National Database (PND) shares information across all police forces, non-police law enforcement agencies, and regulatory bodies. The crucial database is meant to shift to the cloud, but procurement for this move has been delayed at by more than a year.

Last month, the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA), the HM Treasury unit that advises government on major projects, said the move from the amber assessment last year to red in 2025 was down to the Home Office, which runs the project, getting a impact assessment which revealed a five-month hold up in delivery.

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