UK's "most wanted" get own web site
News report of launch of a "most wanted" web site by Crimestoppers. Nick Ross, presenter of the BBC's Crimewatch programme, hailed it as the "biggest advance since the 'Wanted' poster". Unfortunately I was not able to view the site, as it appears to be so popular that "The amount of traffic exceeds the Web site's configured capacity." http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/wanted/
Quote:
"It is astonishing this has never happened before. Apart from Crimewatch there is virtually no way of getting national publicity for most cases and many wanted people could just disappear - until now.
Happily I cannot see who is reading TW, as the example given may well be a typical TW reader
Quote:
He is described as aged 20-25, 5ft 6ins tall, with short black hair and a beard. He is of thin build and has a scar on the right side of his face. There is a £10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.
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Yep it's still down
Nice one. Wonder how much tax payers money was poured into this site? Makes me sick.
Worth it, if it works.
A lot of money I am sure, but if it helps then it will be well worth it. I guess they looked into the sucess of other countries who have similar projects and found it to be viable.
Mack.
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Excellent idea imo, why didn't they do this years ago!
Pity they didn't put it on a decent server though - or maybe one the crims has hacked the site - lol
The Register tells us
The Register tells us
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Not only are some of these 'most wanted' not exactly 'Major' villains, but the Crimestoppers editors seem to be semi-literate:
".... then assaulted a member of staff and the two females made good there escape."
Criminals all over Britain will sleep safer in their beds tonight.
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edit:
Seems its not the editors that are responsible for the typos, but the police themselves:
"The website is maintained and updated by the individual police forces who are responsible for uploading and removing information."
So, thats Ok then.
It also explains why some sentences are entirely in capitals.
It's just re-hashed
"Site too busy. Due to the unprecedented popularity of this site, we are temporarily unable to serve this page. We hope to have the site running smoothly again soon."
is just a rehashed version of
"So what? it's only a handbag snatching. We don't have enough officers as they're all out attending other calls. But I'll send one out if the situation improves. The old dear is hurt? Bandage her head, give her a paracetamol... and call back later."
mack, are any other countries using it? It's just that I can't see how the site could be of any earthly use. OK, you'll stick on your TV for Crimewatch - because of Fiona Bruce's prancing or the cute police officers they sometimes have - but you won't make their site your homepage, will ya? If you don't keep looking at their site how are you going to recognise the criminal you pass on the road?