Crime in your area

[RichardCranium]

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Hmm. Rock Kitchen Harris, Leicester - Advertising, Design, Public Relations, Web Design

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We are a friendly, dedicated group of people who will listen to your marketing needs and help you address them through advertising, design, public relations, and web design. We have been around for 28 years and have regional, national and international experience. We are passionate about every project and client.

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Following on from the success of the earlier CrimeMapper site which we developed for all 43 English and Welsh police forces in October 2009, the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) asked us to take it further, a lot further.

On 1st February the new street level crime mapping and local policing website, covering England and Wales, was launched by Nick Herbert, Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice.

Soon after the 2010 election the Prime Minister, David Cameron, committed the government to providing very detailed crime information to the public. After initial planning and design the development work began in October 2010 and a concentrated effort from us, the Home Office, NPIA and all 43 forces met the target to deliver this system at the end of January 2011. On time and on budget.

The site provides the most detailed crime information on this scale anywhere in the world. We not only designed, built and manage the site we also arranged the hosting using a mix of servers, with the public website using scaleable cloud hosting.

The site offers a wide range of detailed local policing and crime information. Wherever you live in England and Wales you can now find out who your officers are, how to contact them, when and where you can meet them and much more. Crimes and Anti Social Behaviour can be viewed to points on streets showing approximate locations (precise locations were not used to protect privacy). Forces will keep this information as up to date as possible, providing an invaluable central hub for everyone.

Paul Sculthorpe, our Online Account Director, was tired but exhilarated at the launch “It was a great project to work on involving a complicated mix of politics, privacy, security, usability, design, technical skills – a major project management challenge and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. We’re pleased with the end result and hope it will prove to be a useful resource for many people and help the police and all of us to reduce crime and the fear of crime. We’re now looking forward to feedback and continuing developing online policing in future”

Data from the site is also available for use by other developers as part of the government’s transparency initiative, we fully support this and are looking forward to seeing how others use the wealth of data now available to them.

[suityou01]

Who do you think you are? Ian ******* Beale?

Praps, but that would make you a fat, bald, pink, overweight, alcoholic with no real bite any more.

Ahaaaaaaaaaah ..........

[MarillionFan]

Praps, but that would make you a fat, bald, pink, overweight, alcoholic with no real bite any more.

Ahaaaaaaaaaah ..........

I am not bald.

[Zippy]

It's properly broken for me now. The Search button doesn't even work when I click on it

Do keep trying everyone

[DimPrawn]

If we all hit it, maybe it will catch fire.

[Zippy]

If we all hit it, maybe it will catch fire.

I reckon they've taken it offline to upgrade the processor to a 486.

[minestrone]

Well, I've tried 3 postcodes that I have lived at and (once I'd hit refresh enough times to get a response) all say:

"Sorry, we couldn't find a policing area that matched your search."

Now I can't get beyond:



I don't suppose anyone cares, but I've implemented a real live system like that a couple or so years ago and did so for £105k. And it worked.

There is absolutely no excuse any more for a national public sector web site going down on day one because of publicity. That should have been item 1 on the risk log and there is now shed-loads of data available on how much traffic to expect.

FFS, one of the worlds busiest web sites has banner advertising the police site today. I would not be surprised the hit rate was in the millions this morning when it probably would expect to get a few thousand on your average day. A sense of perspective.

[Doggy Styles]

I've got as far as the "Did you mean" screen where it repeats my postcode back to me, along with a couple of partial postcodes. I clicked my postcode, but it came back with a longer list and hung.

I hope this helps your trouble-shooting MF.

[suityou01]

If we all hit it, maybe it will catch fire.

Load Test

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[RichardCranium]

FFS, one of the worlds busiest web sites has banner advertising the police site today. I would not be surprised the hit rate was in the millions this morning when it probably would expect to get a few thousand on your average day. A sense of perspective.

So they should have seen it coming and either scaled for it or designed it to cope or had the sense to trickle the media message instead of sending a press release to the Beeb.

This has happened before with these public sector web sites so it is no secret it was going to happen. They are idiots. But since they are a marketing firm, not IT, it is not surprising they fukced up.