This site has been developed by the Metropolitan Police Service in association with the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London. It provides the public and researchers with free access to crime mappings of London. Users can enter a postcode to retrieve maps of levels of crime in their neighbourhood. These enable comparison of trends in burglary, robbery and vehicle crime in the area ...

The Metropolitan police force has introduced its first trial crime map showing burglary, robbery and vehicle crime for the whole of London. By Jemima Kiss

David Hanson MP, Labour's Shadow Policing Minister, in response to the Metropolitan Police Authority being replaced by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPC) from today, said:

Crime Maps are go. At least, crime maps are being tested by the Met police right now. And on a quick first glance, they look quite impressive. The Power of Information Taskforce has been building proof of concept crime maps and talking to the Met and other organisations who have an interest in this field. I’d

Commenting on the statement by Theresa May, the new Home Secretary, that she intends to push through plans for directly elected police commissioners, Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly policing spokesperson and a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority said: For ten years the Metropolitan Police Service has been accountable to Londoners through a police

The dangers of Deep Packet Inspection coupled with sponsored advertising keywords, e.g. the notorious Phorm, or just the dangers of sponsored search engine keywords coupled with the exisiting and future Communications Traffic Data retention and snooping databases, is illustrated by the inept Metropolitan Police Service Google AdWord / sponsored link campaign, currently afflicting www.google.co.uk....

Scotland Yard will urge the government this week to grant Gurkhas the right to remain in Britain as the Metropolitan Police seeks to recruit them in its latest attempt to tackle violent crime. Senior commanders believe the Nepalese soldiers, who have served with distinction in the British army, would make ideal police officers, and that their discipline, strength and fearlessness would prove cruci...

The fact that a jury felt the police completely fabricated their evidence in the inquest in to Jean Charles de Menezes killing by the metropolitan police ought, in any decent society, to lead to the sacking, discipline and prosecution of those who have brought the name of the Metropolitan Police in to disrepute. Seventeen witnesses with no axe to grind, stated the police lies when they said they s...

Guido reporting the Police have turned up at Westminster, and the man is a privy councillor with arbitary powers to steal you land,home and posessions. Mr. Morley- The link between quality of life and crime is an important issue for the police. Sometimes, the police think that low-level nuisance crime is not a priority and that they should concentrate on more serious crime. They should be doing th...

Here: The news that Tory Immigration spokesman Damian Green has been arrested by the Metropolian Police and held on suspicion of "conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office" shows that the Metropolitan Police have lost all sense of both their own role, and the role of politicians. I've been saying for years now that the police are more interested in protecting the state than protecting the...