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Street level crime

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.

Data Resources 4

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Example API call - Crimes at street-level within a 1 mile radius of a single point.
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Example CSV - Crimes by street, Bedfordshire, Feb 2013
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Example CSV - British Transport Police crimes - Feb 2013
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Example KMLs - Police force geographical areas (Jan 2013)

Additional Links 3

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Crime data portal
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API documentation
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police.uk web application

Additional Information

Openness score
Reason: Unknown error: 'site_user_apikey'
★★★★★  Linked data - data URIs and linked to other data (e.g. RDF)
★★★★☆  Linkable data - served at URIs (e.g. RDF)
★★★☆☆  Structured data in open format (e.g. CSV)
★★☆☆☆  Structured data but proprietry format (e.g. Excel)
★☆☆☆☆  Unstructured data (e.g. PDF)
Score updated: 05/04/2013
Theme Society
Geographic coverage England, Wales
Update frequency monthly
Temporal granularity month
Mandate No value
Temporal coverage No value
Date added computed No value
Date updated computed No value

Developer Tools

The information on this page (the dataset metadata) is also available in JSON format: /api/2/rest/package/england-national-crime-mapping

Read more about this site's CKAN API: About the API

This dataset has a permanent URI: http://data.gov.uk//dataset/england-national-crime-mapping