Sunday 23 December 2007
WWW.POLICE.UK
A police website for crime tip-offs has been axed because officers failed to check it out. The site, www.police.uk, was launched so people could post intelligence about yobs and anti-social behaviour. Reports would be sent for action and "crime maps" drawn up. But the £3million service was ignored by forces nationwide. Project leader Chief Constable Peter Neyroud admitted, "Only a handful used it to any significant degree. Expenditure of such a large sum on a narrowly distributed service could not be justified." It is believed officers were reluctant to use the site because they did not want more crimes reported, so pushing up crime rates.
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First off, sloppy blogging. You have no source or proof of the claims you are making about the police here.
Secondly, as far as I am aware, Crimestoppers is still the most preferred nationwide means of providing anonymous information to the police and has the same function that the website to which you refer had.
Lets not forget that most individual forces do have low-level crime reporting facilities on their own websites, which can be self managed far more efficiently than the national site.
Alternatively, people can always talk to a police officer at community meetings, or by walking into any police station up and down the land.
If you are naive enough to think that the NIM and other analysis tools are not being used by police who you claim are lazy, just because this one website no longer exists, you are much mistaken.
It is believed officers were reluctant to use the site because they did not want more crimes reported, so pushing up crime rates.
It is believed by who? You and people like you who don't have a clue?
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Nu-Liebour do not want crime rates up so instructed the site to be removed. Or perhaps the £3m (unconfirmed) went back into properly equipping cops and putting cops back on the street by employing civilians - who knows...
What is certain is that the site clearly wasn't needed, and the money spent on it is going elsewhere. And that's a good thing.
And you still haven't answered this one. Fantastic work Howeird.
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