Application of Open Source solutions in police officers' portal implementation
Predrag Đikanović, Dusko Sivcevic · Bezbednost Beograd · 2011
In recent years, a rapidly increasing amount of information (systematically or individually stored in various applications) requires a new solution to manage such a quantity of information in a systematic way, making them available only to the individual who needs it. According to this, the police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia (MoI) need a Web portal to facilitate access to information, its adequate understanding and use. For that purpose, the MoI has offered one of the possible portal solutions created as a central source for knowledge, experience and cooperation exchange among police officers (PO) within the organizational units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia. This Police Officers portal (PS portal) should enable efficient creating, editing and restoring of the data and information. Taking into account the restricted budget for 2012, the MoI has made a decision to develop the portal that will use an open source software (OSS) within the open source content management system. Of course, it should be upgraded by necessary modules and will use the existing IBM Lotus Domino platform for secure (encrypted) way of electronic communication and storage of confidential content. This paper defines the needs for the PS portal, as well as the benefits obtained from the use of the web portal and services offered by our future PS portal for knowledge exchange.