Baroness Newlove has published an excellent report (pdf)today on tackling anti social behaviour. Her approach is informed by a grass roots, bottom up perspective working with seven neighbourhoods around the country. Talk about local helped out with a workshop for the people Baroness Newlove was working with. From that, talk about local is about to [...]
Tag Archive for crime
Police Crime Mapping Site Goes Live
This morning, well last night actually, www.police.uk went live. Police.uk allows you to look at crime data by place name postcode or address, so really handy if you are looking to move, but also quite a handy content idea for your Hyperlocal site. By entering a postcode you get several views available: Overview Just that, [...]
ASBOs & Police Information
I was involved in a discussion this morning about ASBOs, finding them on-line and publishing them on hyperlocal sites. I am no legal expert but I know that each time a web page is viewed it classed as being republished, where as printed materials have a published date and that is pretty much it. I [...]
Opening up court reporting for UK hyperlocal websites
Crime and anti-social behaviour are the most challenging topics local websites have to tackle. But most local sites don’t want to add to local fear of crime by just reporting incidents – we want to publish results and support our local criminal justice professionals in the police, crown prosecution service, courts and prisons. Finding out [...]
Crime and Safer Neighbourhood Teams or Panels
People want to read about crime – mainly to be reassured it won’t happen to them. Every Council ward in England and Wales should now have a Safer Neighbourhoods Team and a Panel that gives the team direction. This is a return to the old school Dixon of Dock Green approach. I am a member [...]