www.met.police.uk. London residents can see how much crime is being committed in their neighbourhood on a new website.

London residents can see how much crime is being committed in their neighbourhood on a new website.The £210,000 project shows robbery, burglary and car crime statistics for the capital.The site also compares levels between London boroughs, with higher crime areas shown in red and lower crime areas in blue.Users can type in their postcode and zoom in to see statistics for their local area.The information is extremely detailed, covering groups as few as five or six streets.The site will display monthly crime figures as well as historical data so the public can see yearly trends.Mayor of London Boris Johnson said he thought the site would be "hugely beneficial" and help reduce crime by putting public pressure on the police.Speaking at a press conference in City Hall he said: "What we want to see is Londoners feeling that if they experience crime that it matters. That it is not going to be lost in some great welter of statistics, that it's going to be recorded on the spot where it happened, that it's going to be publicly available and there's going to be pressure on the police to do something about it."Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson said the site could be expanded in the future to include other types of crime, clean-up rates and local crime-fighting plans.The website can be found at www.met.police.uk.

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