Local Crime Mapping

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 27 October 2008.

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Photo of Jacqui Smith Jacqui Smith Home Secretary, The Secretary of State for the Home Department 2:30, 27 October 2008

It is obviously important that local police forces, such as the Essex police force, make the appropriate decisions, but I am clear—as is ACPO—that we must reach a position whereby, alongside crime mapping, we provide much better information to local people and at least monthly opportunities for them to engage with their neighbourhood policing teams, which are now in every neighbourhood throughout the country, to know what is going on and what, together, they can do about it.