The U.K. government's official offense map Police.uk, which uses Google Maps to map U.K. crime, has been visited over 450 meg times together with is past times far together with away the almost pop U.K. authorities website.
Today the U.K. authorities announced that from tomorrow users of the maps volition live on able to instruct offense statistics for to a greater extent than locations. Currently users tin search the map past times postcode or past times address together with instruct results based on "an anonymous indicate on or nigh the route where they (the crimes) occurred."
As of tomorrow users volition live on able to search for crimes that cause got taken house at specific populace locations, such every bit private railway stations, shopping centres, airports, hospitals, parks together with nightclubs etc.
Despite its popularity the map has non been costless of criticism. The knowwhere spider web log posted a skilful round-up of closed to of the criticism the website faced inwards the calendar week of its master copy release.
The novel mapping of populace spaces is likewise proving controversial. For lawsuit at that topographic point are worries that nightclub owners may pop off much less probable to liaise amongst local law forces over criminal activity inside their establishments if the lawsuit is that the clubs are therefore shown every bit criminal hotspots on the map.
Today the U.K. authorities likewise announced that from May users of the offense map volition live on able to come across what happened later on a offense was committed, what activity was taken past times the law together with whether anyone was eventually convicted for the crime.
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