Case Study: The Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime achieves rapid, scalable, secure cloud-based digital evidence management with Axon

How London's Metropolitan Police went cloud

The Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) awarded Axon a 2015 tender to supply 22,000 body‑worn video cameras and supporting infrastructure for the Metropolitan Police Service, originally planning to host Evidence.com on MPS servers. Concerns about delivery timelines, scalability, cost certainty and the need to support advanced analytics and automation led stakeholders to reconsider the on‑premise approach.

Axon moved Evidence.com to Microsoft Azure’s UK data centre (decision mid‑2016, launched December 2016) and delivered Evidence.com as a cloud SaaS solution, bringing faster deployment (months versus a likely year+ on‑prem build), scalable storage and compute for the 22,000 cameras, stronger security and lower ongoing management overhead. The Axon cloud rollout enabled monthly updates and advanced features (automatic crowd‑blurring, automated crime reports and cross‑evidence search), reduced organisational risk, improved resilience and delivered measurable cost and time savings for the MPS.

The Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime