The Legal Custodial Portal - project story

The portal is carried out in close collaboration with professionals, such as the police, courts, the Prison and Prison Administration and external parties with the aim of exchanging data and information digitally between all of them, having the same perspective anywhere in the system and access to information and data as soon as it is available.

The project is unique in its kind, ensures a secure flow of personal data and dramatically simplifies the procedures that all the members of the system work together on.

Main objectives

• Modern and user-driven services that meet the needs of victims, defendants and other parties

• Effective and secured service processes on customer premises where process and status information is available at any given time

• Redefining technology, work practices and regulatory environment to eliminate waste and optimise resource use

The guiding lights for the project are access to security – efficiency.

Main emphasis

• Data shall be accessible electronically, across institutions

• Processes will be reviewed when processing data with regard to new technology and the laws will be amended accordingly

• An overview of the criminal justice system as a whole should be improved

• Access shall be secure for external parties, for example lawyers and parties to a case

Expected benefits

• Shorter procedure periods

• Time saving for transfer of necessary data between parties - data flows between, not people

• Fewer handsets, less paper use, fewer mail items, less registered mail

• Efficiency, do not re-enter data, reduce error risk

• Improved data quality, defined responsibility

• More security, confidentiality, integrity, accessibility and traceability

What is the retention portal and for whom?

The following video covers the main points. (in Icelandic)