In 1990 Assistant Commissioner Ray Shuey called Chief Inspector Rob Bailey to his office, as Rob had already managed one force-wide project called TRIM (the tape recording of formal interviews) in the 80”s

Rob was asked to select a group of selected people to investigate the potential to introduce Computer Aided Dispatch to the Victoria Police.

Ultimately in 1996 Rob decommissioned D24 at Russell Street and a combined EMS was implemented at the Police Centre (in what was a car park) and at Tally Ho at Burwood.

Rob was initially the Project Manager and at the end the project, after 6 years, was co-ordinator for the estimated cost of around $360m project;

Rob talks about the great team & environment which was created & shares some stories about the evolution including the fact;

·     He was offered a bribe

·     he WITNESSED CORRUPTION

·     the difficulties in POLICE COMMAND NOT UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT;

·     THE EVALUATION PROCESS AND POLITICAL INTERFERENCE;

·     BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANS AND INTERRUPTIONS

·     FALSE ACCUSATION OF INTERGRAPH CAUSING DEATHS

·     FALSE INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THE CORONER

·     DEATH OF A WOMAN AND BABY

·     PERJURY AT THE CORONERS COURT

·     CORRUPTION AT TALLY HO CENTRE

·     The waste of time & resources into a ROYAL COMMISSION

·     MISINFORMATION BY THE MEDIA, PARTICULARLY 3AW

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