Mary Macleod, Member of Parliament for Brentford and Isleworth, has welcomed the government’s website www.police.uk which provides data maps that show crime and anti-social behaviour at a street-by-street level in the Hounslow borough. This means, from today, everyone can see exactly what crime is happening and where - right down to the level of their street corner. According to the Home Office the website was receiving up to five million hits an hour. If anyone has concerns about crime locally or how issues are dealt with, they can raise them with the police.
Mary said: “I am really pleased that the government has demonstrated they are serious about cutting the levels of crime and anti-social behaviour in our communities. They have already announced a number of measures to help slash bureaucracy from scrapping the ‘stop form’ to removing all targets and setting the police just one goal: to cut crime.
“The street-level crime maps provide local communities with transparent information. By providing crime data in an open format that anyone can access, even from their mobile, we can all hold the police to account. We can ensure they deal with the issues that actually matter to us locally, not those decided by a Whitehall bureaucrat”.