By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner It’s almost 20 years since colleagues at West Yorkshire Police released the UK’s first prototype crime map. As we pointed out at the time, if knowledge is power, information is the natural energy source on which it depends - and within the criminal justice sector, that was in short supply. It was clear that in the future, not only would there be a growing public demand for access to crime data, but also that the