Find Out The Crime Levels On The Street Where You Live.
Hey Folks,
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Nice morning here today.
It could even be described as warm.
Now there’s an improvement!
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Yesterday saw the launching of a very good idea by the police.
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It is a new website called www.police.uk.
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This is an excellent innovation that allows you to log on and find out about the levels of crime in your area, and it can go into detail down to just a few houses.
This should prove a very useful way for visitors to any new areas to be able to avoid possible trouble.
It could even be useful to use it to plot a safer way to make any journeys on foot because sometimes the character of a place can change incredibly within a few streets, especially in a city.
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You just need to enter in a post code, a street name or address and you can find out what level of reported crimes or acts of anti-social behaviour there is to be found in that particular location.
This is a world first and applies to England and Wales.
It is updated monthly and can be accessed on a mobile phone too.
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There are six different categories of crime which cover….violent crime….vehicle crime….robbery….burglary….anti-social incidents….and a clutch of ‘other crimes’, which covers things such as sex offences, and shoplifting etc.
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It has proved to be an incredibly popular site, with millions hits of hits yesterday, until eventually it was unable to cope with the relentless traffic and crashed.
It seems that it was so popular that they were trying to deal with 300,000 each minute…that would add up to an unbelievable 18 million hits per hour!!!
It cost £3000.000 to set up and with such immediate interest it has obviously been successful in the extreme.
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There are problems though, with many people complaining because their own area is a peaceful and crime-free place to live, although it is being shown as a hotbed of crime.
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Media reports say that two streets in Sussex are being shown to have a high incidence of anti-social behaviour, reaching 100 incidents per month, when residents say that in actual fact there are under 10.
This obviously distresses residents in any such wrongly represented location, because their area’s desirability will be lessened and that will result in a lowering of their house values when it comes to re-sale.
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I think, start-up problems aside, that it is a good idea because it is straightforward information, available to the general public.
Previously it was hard to know the actual truth about anything like that when politicians can make the figures say anything that suits them.
Let’s have more of it!
J.
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