This blog has gone quiet recently because we are now working on our report back to Government. I had hoped to do this in December but we have needed a little longer to do justice to the subject.
It will reflect our experiences over the last 9 months and offer some recommendations for the areas of work we believe Government should tackle as a priority.
The plan is for this to be published shortly in an online, commentable form. Full details will be announced here.
Richard Allan, Task Force Chair
Filed under Announcements
The Home Office has announced that crime mapping is now available for all 43 Police forces in England and Wales.
These have been implemented on a force by force basis so there is not as yet a consistent way to access each of them. You are instead advised:
To see a crime map for your area, go to the website of your local force and search for ‘crime map’.
To facilitate this, a full list of links to the individual Police force sites is available on the national Police website.
Feedback on the different implementations would be interesting to inform the next steps for crime mapping development.
It should also be an objective of this process to create better availability and consistency of the underlying crime data sets so that other parties can innovate with their own versions of crime maps.
Richard Allan, Task Force Chair
Filed under Crime
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