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CIV
Actian Ingres Database
Keeping European Football Safe is the
“Goal” for Actian Ingres Database
“For the Euro 2000 Football tournament in the Netherlands we were
looking for a way to register football hooligans to proactively defend
against violence. Particularly, we looked to record, register and
process images of hooligans for future reference.”
Anton Kunenborg, IT Analyst CIV
Customer
CIV –a subsidiary of the Highlights
Dutch Police and a center In early 1997, prior to the Euro 2000 football tournament co-hosted by The Netherlands
of excellence for football
and Belgium; mayors of large Dutch cities, the royal commissionaires, the Dutch police,
hooligan management.
public prosecutors, and the Dutch Football League (KNVB in Dutch) recognized the need
Industry for a single record of football related violence to monitor the activities of a relatively small
Public Sector group of violent offenders, widely known as “football hooligans.”
Challenge As records of previous violence and its perpetrators are disparate and reside within various
› Centralize information
organizations across the Netherlands and the world, a single database with the ability to
on instances of football
hooliganism across
provide secure access for law enforcement agencies, governments, border control etc.,
Europe was a key weapon in preventing football violence.
› Proactively manage
and protect people The database has become a mission critical tool for not only the Dutch authorities, but
attending games also the wider European community to fight hooliganism and make football safe for all
those that wish to attend games.
Solution
› Actian Ingres Database Challenge
› Actian Ingres OpenROAD The CIV is a subsidiary of the Dutch Police and a center of excellence for football
› Elegance hooligan management. It was created in 1986 after particular heavy riots and violence
related to football.
Benefits
› The Hooligan The CIV knew that it needed to find a way to track previous football related violence,
Database`(VVS) is now
the authority on football maintain a record of trends among offenders, and keep a database of all known football
related violence hooligans. As a result it created the Hooligan Tracking System (VVS in Dutch) to gather
› VVS can be used to information regarding incidents of violence, hooligans’ backgrounds, effects of actions,
map previous incidents previous convictions, and trends in behavior.
› VVS can predict and
potentially prevent Cost management is key to any IT project in the public sector. The ability to integrate
future incidents and allow access to the system was central to its success as a national and pan-European
knowledgebase. As Hooligans travel through Europe for games, the VVS also understood
the important of supporting multiple European languages, using Dutch and English as
the default languages.

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Success Story Results
The Dutch Government has embraced open source The VVS database holds information related to all
solutions as a key element of its innovation strategy. football matches in the Netherlands such as dates,
Starting as a strong recommendation in 2005 and schedules, locations, crowd numbers, as well as data on
pronounced mandatory in 2009, the Dutch Government persons linked to football related violence. VVS is now
mandates that open source software must be considered recognized by European courts as a trustworthy source
as a potential equal alternative to closed source software to cite in conclusions and rulings. It is considered to
in public tenders. be the most advanced and one-of-a kind solution that
supports the process of arrest-hold-prosecute-convict
With this in mind, CIV approached the market with a hooligans to all the involved chain partners. The ability
specific requirement for a socially valuable project that to predict the violence-risk factor of future football
could be powered by open source technology. matches is one of the new features of VVS. On the basis
of these predictions, law enforcement and others can
Solution help prevent and control a potential outburst of violence.
CIV worked with Ingres partner, Elegant ICT, to create a
reliable database to support the work of law enforcement Over the past decade the VVS has seen impressive
agencies in Europe by providing a platform for the results in terms of Cost of Ownership. The reduction
exchange of information concerning international in maintenance costs due to its stability has ensured
football matches. The Hooligan Tracking System was that VVS is considered a best practice example of how
first released in 1997. government agencies can reduce costs without stifling
innovation but continue to protect its citizens.
To be able to meet all the functional, technical and
financial criteria, Elegant ICT developed the Ingres
modeling tool Elegance, written in Ingres OpenROAD,
which automates the data modeling and application
generation process based upon user specifications.
The migration project to Ingres Database and Ingres
OpenROAD was successfully implemented in April
2009. European regulations require all local IFIP’s
(International Football Information Points) take
measures to deal with football related hooliganism.
One of the tools at hand is a website that reveals the
relevant information to its (limited by-authorization)
users across Europe. VVS is one of the trustworthy
sources that is used by this website.

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About Actian: Incite Action
Actian Corporation (formerly Ingres Corp.) is the first to unveil a Cloud Action Platform
for building Action Apps. Action Apps are lightweight consumer-style applications that
automate business actions triggered by real-time changes in data. Actian products
incite action at more than 10,000 customers worldwide by driving their mission critical
workloads and providing rapid action insights to their data. Actian is headquartered in
Redwood City, California with offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam,
and Melbourne.
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