The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service / Andy McCue Silicon.com 2 June 2008
http://comment.silicon.com/andymccue/0,3800002580,39239076,00.htm
"Patrolling the mean streets of London on a Friday evening isn't where you would usually find a CIO but then not many CIOs get to experience front line service in the way the Metropolitan Police Service's director of information management Ailsa Beaton does. Part of her role - in addition to the fairly standard set of CIO responsibilities in terms of the IT systems, voice comms and systems development - includes the application of technology into policing, and where better to get that insight than at the sharp end."