📋 Tender Overview
The Bavarian police get a new cross - procedural research and analysis system VeRA . According to a Europe-wide tender by the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office BLKA only Palantir Technologies GmbH meets the strict tender criteria. Therefore the BLKA awarded the contract. Bavarias Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann welcomes the decision to purchase new analysis software This will enable the Bavarian police to fight terrorism and serious crime more consistently. Since the highest possible data security and the best possible data protection are very important the Minister of the Interior announced that the software and the source code would be completely checked by an independent German research institute such as the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft before the introduction. The basic requirement for the introduction of the software at the Bavarian police is that we are 100 percent certified to comply with the high security standards. Otherwise the BLKA will withdraw from the contract. In addition the Bavarian police will continue to coordinate closely with the state commissioner for data protection. In addition the interior minister announced that he would only introduce VeRA when the Bavarian state parliament under the leadership of its committee for municipal issuesHerrmann emphasized that the new analysis software will only be used within the police network and without a connection to the Internet. Access to the data from outside or data leakage to external servers is thus ruled out. It is also ensured that the analysis software can only be used under certain conditions. Only specially selected and specially trained police experts will be granted access authorization.
