Secure Data Exchange Service (SDES) Integration

6B works with police forces, PCC offices, central government departments, justice agencies, and public-sector technology providers to design and implement high-quality SDES integrations. Whether you need to automate secure file transfers, synchronise operational data, support multi-agency workflows, or comply with national policing data exchange standards, our integrations ensure reliability, security, and long-term sustainability.

Our mission is to help public-sector organisations modernise information sharing and strengthen interoperability by enabling seamless, standards-based data exchange through SDES.

Understanding the Secure Data Exchange Service (SDES)

The Secure Data Exchange Service (SDES) is a Home Office–provided platform that enables trusted, encrypted, and auditable exchange of operational data between police forces, law enforcement partners, and authorised government organisations. SDES is widely used for sharing intelligence files, case information, safeguarding data, criminal justice documents, and structured data packages.

SDES supports secure API-driven data exchange, automated file transfers, scheduled batch synchronisation, and controlled routing between organisations. Access is managed through strict identity and authorisation controls, ensuring only approved systems or users can submit or retrieve data. Full audit trails and metadata logging ensure transparency, accountability, and compliance with policing and government data handling standards.

The platform integrates with case management systems, records management systems, intelligence tools, evidence repositories, safeguarding systems, and back-office applications. SDES is designed to meet the governance, auditing, and operational needs of UK policing and national public-safety workflows.

Our SDES Integration Process

We begin with a detailed discovery phase to understand your integration objectives — such as automating secure document transfers, enabling feed-based data exchange, synchronising case or intelligence updates, or routing structured information to partner agencies. We map these requirements to the appropriate SDES APIs, file models, payload formats, and workflow options.

Our architects design a secure, scalable integration architecture using encrypted communication, secure storage, structured data mappings, orchestration pipelines, and SDES-compliant authentication and authorisation flows. We consider operational constraints including data sensitivity, message size, retention rules, auditability, partner dependencies, and resilience requirements.

6B accelerates delivery using reusable components including secure file-handling pipelines, metadata mappers, encryption modules, API connectors, and audit log processors. All integrations undergo rigorous testing to validate security, data integrity, error handling, throughput, and compliance with Home Office and policing governance expectations.

During deployment, we coordinate with your technical and operational teams to configure SDES endpoints, access credentials, routing rules, security models, and go-live processes. After launch, 6B provides long-term monitoring, support, updates, and optimisation to ensure ongoing reliability and compliance as SDES evolves.

Benefits of SDES Integration

Integrating your systems with SDES enhances secure information sharing across policing, justice, and government partners, ensuring sensitive data is transferred safely and efficiently. Automation reduces manual handling, improves data accuracy, and increases operational efficiency across high-stakes workflows.

SDES integration improves multi-agency collaboration by ensuring timely, secure data movement between systems and organisations. Audit trails and controlled permissions support transparency, governance, and compliance with national policing and criminal justice standards.

For technology providers, SDES integration enhances your solution’s operational readiness and credibility across policing, safeguarding, and justice environments, enabling wider adoption and alignment with national interoperability frameworks.