Street level crime (police.uk data)

Published by:
Home Office
Last updated:
12 January 2016
Topic:
Crime and justice
Licence:
Open Government Licence

Summary

Crime data and neighbourhood policing information from all forces in England and Wales to the Public. This data is what is behind the police.uk website.

The Police API allows you to retrieve information about neighbourhood areas in all 43 English & Welsh police forces. All forces are required to keep this data accurate and up to date, so the API provides a rich and definitive data source for crime statistics at both street and neighourhood level.

The API is implemented as a standard XML REST web service using HTTP GET/POST requests.

The monthly data dumps can be downloaded using URLs structured consistently in the following format: https://data.police.uk/data/archive/[year]-[month].zip However because the data file is over 19 million rows, we also provide Custom CSV Download and JSON API helper interfaces so you can easily access subsets of the data. Generally, we recommend working with one of these interfaces instead of the full data dump.

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Link to the data Format File added Data preview
Latest month of crimes CSV 12 January 2016 Preview
Example API call - Crimes at street-level within a 1 mile radius of a single point. JSON 05 April 2013 Not available

Supporting documents

Link to the document Format Date added
Crime data portal HTML 03 December 2012
API documentation HTML 03 December 2012
police.uk web application HTML 03 December 2012
Changelog - up-to-date list of issues with the data HTML 12 January 2016
About the data HTML 12 January 2016

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