Police officers will not have a single digital identity for secure access to national IT systems until two years after originally planned.

Contract tenders have been cancelled for the original multimillion-pound project, which aimed to give a single log-on method for officers accessing applications such as the Police National Computer (PNC).

The scheme, ­ first scheduled to be finished in April 2007, ­ has undergone a change in core strategy.

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