Quantum Dice and North Wales Police Test Probabilistic Computing for Emergency Response

Insider Brief

• Quantum Dice and North Wales Police completed Project PROTECT, a proof-of-technology evaluating probabilistic computing for emergency-response vehicle deployment planning.
• In a modelled deployment scenario, the approach reduced average response times to 4.82 minutes, about 40% below the station-based baseline, while increasing P0 demand reachable within 10 minutes from 58.8% to 75.6%.
• A separate 24-hour simulation covering 13 urgent incidents achieved an average response time of 7.76 minutes in its best-performing configuration, although further validation is required before operational deployment.

PRESS RELEASE — Quantum Dice and North Wales Police today announced the results of Project PROTECT, a proof-of-technology evaluating how Quantum Dice’s probabilistic processor can support emergency-response vehicle deployment planning.

The project demonstrated that probabilistic optimisation can significantly improve forward-deployment planning for emergency response vehicles while maintaining operational constraints that are critical to policing.

In a constrained modelled deployment scenario, retaining one vehicle at each of five station wards and optimising the placement of ten surplus vehicles, Project PROTECT reduced average response times to 4.82 minutes, a reduction of approximately 40% compared with the station-based baseline.