This week Leeds Beckett University ran a two day Facilitators Accrediting Workshop in their brand new Hydra Suite.   What type of delegates were involved… The students were from Law, Journalism and the Management schools.  The course was excellent with huge engagement from all the delegates.  This was the first-run of their new Hydra Suite, […]

Accountability… The First AFP SIO Course presents themselves for a Senate Committee scrutiny at Parliament House. Delegates who had attended a two week course had to give evidence on their accountability in the investigation of Serious Crime as part of their course. They were asked very searching questions and were able to defend their investigative […]

From Australia… Wishing all our friends a Happy Christmas, as we at the Hydra Foundation look back over 2015, we are delighted to see Australian Federal Police now fully operational, Western Australia, Victoria Police and NSW Police going from strength to strength.  Australia is a strong partner in our community of ideas.   To America… […]

AFP suite in Canberra Australia ran its first SIO Course in December 2015. The course was developed in partnership with the Hydra Foundation and was Facilitated by Alison, Dean, Shane and Jonathan.  Geoff worked alongside the control room to pace and train the directing team.   The course was very well received and the delegates […]

A major new version of HITC (version 3.0 – Orion) is on the horizon with deployment scheduled for the 28th of December.

As part of the new installation at Leeds Beckett University, Geoff, Terry and Jonathan ran a workshop this week with the Business and Law School academics on the methodologies of Hydra.   The new scenario is well developed, and great progress has been made on both the installation of the new Hydra Suite and the […]

A new Hydra Control Room has been built and commissioned at Canterbury Christ Church University. The Hydra Foundation team installed the new Hydra screens and audio monitoring system last week once the building refurbishment at Canterbury had been completed. 

Out with the old… Earlier this week the Hydra Foundation team upgraded the Hydra Suite for Northants Police at the University of Northampton site. The Hydra Suite is a joint venture between the University and Police and is now running the latest version of Hydra, Hydra in the Cloud.

Australian Federal Police Hydra Suite was installed this week.  Steve flew out with UK AV technicians to work alongside Australian contractors.  The new suite running Hydra in the Cloud technology was installed in the AFP training centre. With internet connectivity the new suite is operating with its own secure server and access to the web […]

Hydra established in 85 centres around the world.  The new system is stunning. Where do we operate… Hydra in the Cloud, a web based fully featured system is now operating in Australia, USA and the UK in 10 Hydra suites.  There is a roll out planned to convert existing suites to the new system.  The […]