Police computer boffins are developing software described as like a "Google Maps of crime" that will for the first time show offences street by street. Source: The Courier-Mail
QUEENSLANDERS will get a new perspective on crime in their neighbourhoods thanks to a ground-breaking police mapping project.
Police computer boffins are developing software described as like a "Google Maps of crime" that will for the first time show offences street by street.
But there are no plans to include crime-rate information that would allow comparisons of neighbourhoods.
From next year anyone will be able to enter a street address, postcode or police division into a special search engine and compare the number of reported offences. The system, which will be free to access, is likely to show crimes ranging from assault and burglary to car theft using user-friendly icons to represent each type of offence.
Users will be able to customise their own maps showing neighbourhood crime hot spots and to track offending over time, with up to 15 years' worth of information being made available.
Sensitive crimes such as sex offences and breaches of domestic violence orders are likely to be aggregated with other crime types, such as assault, so they can't be associated with a particular location.
The Queensland Police Service is using data that records the location of each offence, but is working on ways to show crimes by street only so as to avoid breaching people's privacy. QPS said it would consider including crime rates at a future date.
The data will be updated regularly, but there is likely to be a time lag while police verify the figures.
The project is the product of about 18 months' work, triggered by pressure from Queensland's Information Commissioner and the media.
A spokesman for Emergency Services Minister Jack Dempsey said the program would help homebuyers and businesspeople make informed decisions about different locations.
"We want to give everyone an opportunity to look at the crime stats," he said.
"There's no reason to keep it secret or to do it just once a year."
The aim was to have the project go live by February but the State's Privacy Commissioner would be consulted first, the spokesman said.
It will be the first time police have published "divisional" level crime stats, breaking the figures down by suburb.
Police have kept more detailed divisional numbers to themselves, with the QPS last year saying it could not release the divisional statistics because they had not been "verified" by their statistics unit.
A QPS spokeswoman said The Sunday Mail's and The Courier-Mail's use of Right To Information laws to obtain the neighbourhood statistics two years ago had been the initial trigger for the project.
It also comes as the Newman Government makes commitments to greater transparency.
Its moves so far include putting a selection of statistics, including 15-years' worth of Statewide crime numbers and rates, on a pilot website, http://data.qld.gov.au.
In NSW residents can access data by suburb that is collected by an independent body.
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