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Police National Computer - PNC2

01 January 1991

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Police National Computer - PNC2
artdoc May=1991
House of Commons written answer 15.10.90 Cols.723-724

Mr. Andrew F. Bennett: To ask the Secretary of State, for
the Home Department whether a date has been set for the new
police computer (PNC2) to become fully operational; what is its
potential full capacity; and approximately how many individual
records are likely to be held on the PNC2 at the date when it
becomes fully operational.

Mr. Peter Lloyd: A firm date has not yet been set for the
"cut over" from the present PNC system to PNC2. It will be set
only after all the components of the new system have been
delivered and fully tested.
As the hon. Member was told in reply to this question on
24 July at column 132, the PNC2 system will be capable of
handling 62 million instructions per second, its main memory
will be capable of storing 190 million bytes of data and it
will have sufficient disk capacity to store 80,000 million
bytes of data.
PNC2 is expected to hold records on about 45 million
vehicles, 6 million persons and 4 million fingerprints.

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