8
May
2017
By Calvin at 13:55 GMT, 6 years ago
A number of police services across England and Wales have been moving their websites onto a new national platform, presumably as a cost-saving exercise. Unfortunately this has meant me losing a couple of police website links, which I am trying to rectify.
Hampshire Constabulary’s new website is a case in point, but after I wrote to them and they consulted their crime prevention staff the link to The Crime Prevention Website was put back. I’m now hoping I can achieve the same outcome with the other two police forces.
I don’t get a huge number of referrals from police websites and maybe this is because the public don’t use the police crime prevention pages a great deal unless perhaps if they have been the victim of a crime. That being said it is good to know that my link is present on a dozen or more police sites, because this does give them access to as much advice they would need to keep themselves safe.
In the meantime if your police website doesn’t already link and you would like it to do so then please drop me a line and I’ll send you through some information. It’s the same message for Neighbourhood Watch Groups too. This site is currently linked to 95 Neighbourhood Watch, Home Watch and Community sites right across the UK. Between them they are helping to promote my important Home Security Survey application that now been used 6,660 times!
You may also be interested to learn that this website has been cited in a number of academic books including:
Oxford Handbook of Criminology (sixth edition) Crime Prevention and Community Safety Published by Oxford University Press 2016. Professor Adam Crawford and Karen Evans
The Criminal Act. The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory Published by Springer 2015 Professor Graham Farrell and Dr M Andresen;
Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety Published by Routledge, 2017 Edited by Professor Nick Tilley and Dr Aiden Sidebottom;
The Handbook of Security 2nd Edition Published by Palgrave and MacMillan 2014 Edited by Martin Gill Professor of Criminology
It’s also received a large number of ‘thumbs up’ from its many users that you can read about on my Testimonials Page.
