'Springcat' said:

The Home Office business plan says that they are 'prepar[ing] for publication of "street-level" crime data, produced every month in an open, standardised and reusable format to provide the public with detailed information about crime in their neighbourhoods.' The target date is this month. The Met on the other hand seem to think this would potentially be in contravention of the Data Protection Act and the Human Rights Act. No doubt someone will tell us in due course what is going on.