Attribute to Superintendent Mike Johnson:
In response to a number of queries, New Zealand Police confirm that they have been assured by their project vendor that the Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) is still due to go live in September 2016.
Police are focused on ensuring we have a modern and stable human resources system that meets our business requirements. Our emphasis is ensuring this project delivers a quality solution that pays our people correctly.
The HRMIS project will replace the current Police payroll system, PeopleSoft, and will make it easier for people to manage HR information such as pay, learning, leave, time and personal information. The HRMIS project is complex and both Police and the consortium of vendors are focused on ensuring we get it right.
Accordingly, revisions of the timeframe and budget has been made as the project has developed. This reflects the complexity of the overall project.
The budget has been reforecast from the original budget of $56.2m to a new budget of $64m which takes into account the change of implementation date from April to September and other costs.
In Treasury documents released to media dated August, September and November 2015, there is reference to a $2 million per month ‘project burn rate’, if the April date go-live were to slip. This was previous to the budget reforecast and revised project delivery date of September 2016, and subsequent approval from Cabinet to increase total life cost to $64m, from $56.2m.
Currently, the project is tracking to the revised budget and within baseline. There is a robust governance programme in place for this project which includes closely monitoring costs.
Police can confirm that frontline services have not been affected by the reforecast of budget and timeframe.
Further information about the project can be found at: http://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/programmes-and-initiatives/mypolice-n...
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