Police website in UK's top ten

The North Yorkshire Police website has been ranked ninth out of 57 forces, five places higher than last year, and a succession of tests found the website to be sixth overall for functionality and eighth for accessibility.

The UK Police Website Index survey, conducted to ensure accountability and best practice online, extensively tests and ranks each police force website based on certain criteria including page content, templates and infrastructure.

Over the past 12 months North Yorkshire has made vast improvements to the force website, introducing more interactive and in-depth content for users.

Live online meetings with local inspectors have proved
to be very popular with residents, who can now interact
with their Safer Neighbourhood Team from the comfort of their own homes.

Further developments include audio editions of the quarterly SNT newsletters and interactive crime maps to enable residents to view crime levels in their neighbourhood, and regular updates from local policing teams.

Web Officer Tom Stirling said: “We work very hard to keep our website up to date with information about our current policing priorities, local crime updates and witness appeals, so we are
delighted to achieve such a high score in the latest national
survey.”

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