October 21, 2009 by Matt Thomas
An interactive map of the UK that shows local crime statistics and information on local police forces crashed due to demand yesterday. On Tuesday morning, many of the visitors who went onto maps.police.uk to check the crime statistics in their locality were disappointed to find the site would not load.
It is believed that the demand for the recently launched service is to blame for the outage, which shows the demand for these kinds of services and vindicates the police’s decision to provide them. However, the fact that the site is down so soon after it was launched probably isn’t exactly the kind of publicity that the police force was looking for when it set up the site.
Crime Minister, David Hanson had this to say about the service…
“Crime maps are a key part of delivering neighbourhood policing and giving communities access to information like this not only improves public confidence but ensures police are responding to local people’s needs.”
No comment about the outage has emerged as of yet, though you have to suspect server issues… Maybe somebody stole them?
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