Make crime statistics from your local Police Force available for searching

Posted by Wesley Hedge on 22/01/2010 7 comments
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Police authorities now have to make crime statistics accessible on-line, but getting to raw, detailed data is difficult. To be able to compare types of crime, across cities, districts, postal areas or streets is a very valuable source of info, when working with local communities, crime prevention, and public awareness.

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Postcode Crime Comparison website

Might be of some use (it's still in development), it allows users to compare crimes in two postcode regions.

 

<a href="http://www.crime-statistics.co.uk">Compare UK Crime Statistics</a>

Official Crime API

Here is the official Crime API, which contains up to date crime data for all police forces in England and Wales:
http://data.gov.uk/apps/police-api

Crime data

Some of that information is publicly available... if you look in the right places! For instance the source for our NI Crime Map is listed here http://data.gov.uk/apps/northern-ireland-crime-map

You might like to take a look at the Northern Ireland Crime Map we created last year: http://www.banjax.com/sandbox/crime/2008/

local crime statistics

I agree. After a previous disaterous move to Sheffield where I ended up in a high crime area and was burgled and had my car stolen, I am now moving to Coventry and would really appreciate a detailed map of crime in the area but all I can get in the police website is a very large area, where the crime is, apparently, 'average'.

Is there geographic data

Is there geographic data available alongside the crime stats to enable simple layering over a map?

If so I'd like to see these online but crucially printed out on - in the communities the data refers to.

Public data processing should be about putting tangible visualisations of it back in to communities. Even an ambient awareness of a problem can reduce its impact.

The link below is an

The link below is an interactive map from Metropolitan Police that shows crime statistics in England and Wales. There is a lot of improvements to be done on the website, but the idea is very good. 

http://maps.police.uk/view/metropolitan/