3.4 The Government has established a new organisation - Criminal Justice Information Technology (CJIT) - that replaces the Integrated Business and Information Systems (IBIS) unit. It has a remit to deliver a major programme of IT projects significantly to improve the integration of IT systems and access to information across the criminal justice system. Libra will be a major element in that programme, and the Department is fully committed to its aims and objectives. The Director-General of Criminal Justice Information Technology reports to Ministers in the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor's Department and to the Attorney-General.
3.5 The three key targets for CJIT to improve IT systems across the criminal justice system are:
■ by 2003 to ensure that all criminal justice system professionals will be able to e-mail each other securely;
■ by 2005 to ensure that all criminal justice system organisations will be able to exchange case file information electronically; and
■ by 2005 to ensure that victims will begin to be able to track the progress of their cases on-line.