Government's Crime Map Crashes Within Hours Of Launch
1,555 views · Published 1 February 2011 · 1:57 · Indexed 22 September 2026
Channel: Sky News · 2011 · News & Politics
The Government's new crime-mapping website crashed within hours of being launched after attracting 300-thousand hits a minute. Up to 18 million hits an hour froze the site, designed to give people the information they need to hold their local police to account. There were also issues about the way the site's information was collected but the Home Office says it's working hard to iron out the problems. Sky's Mike McCarthy reports.
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