An interactive, online crime mapping system that is currently used in North America may be making its way to the UK soon.

Using similar technology to that employed by Savannah-Chatham Police Department in the United States, the maps can be accessed in most web browsers and pin point crimes using a variety of symbols.

Chief Constable Peter Neyroud, head of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), said: “It is so much quicker than what we can do in this country because we are so bogged down in the bureaucracy of crime recording and making sure it is all audited, and so on. We are struggling to get quick-time information out to the public.”

There is currently a mapping system in place and available on British Police website, however, the information is only based on averages in the area and does not discern separate crimes and their locations.

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