The DNA databases of Crimtrac, the national police support agency, has been moved to the CCTV-supervised pods at hosting provider Canberra Data Centres.

The servers of the government agency were pulled from the Defence Computing Bureau and moved to a co-location provider this month in order to cut expenses and bolster its carbon-cutting measures.

Nicholas Page, a spokesman of Crimtrac, stated that the action will slash its electricity bill into half, necessitate 50% less space, and save approximately 50,000 litres of water in a day.

Nicholas Page also stated that the servers are placed within a secure area of the data centre. Their security people have full control over who enters the area and monitor the electronic surveillance.

The Minister of Home Affairs Brendan O'Connor led the migration to the "clean, green and secure" Canberra data centre today.

According to Computerworld Australia, the Crimtrac data from the National Criminal Investigation DNA Database, the National Police Reference System, the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System, and the Australian National Child Offender Register within the Canberra Data Centres are being built in the community of Hume, which is a growing urban fringe municipality located about 20km from the central business district of Melbourne. O'Conner stated that the data centre will make certain all 50,000 police officers of the nation have an easy and reliable access to the databases.

Yearly audits and random assessment of security will be conducted by the Australian Security Information Office to make sure the data centre meets the requirements of the government.

Crimtrac started off an overhaul of its extranet last month and moved to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 software tools suite after the product was released in January.