Data.Police.UK
data.police.ukData.Police.UK provides access to real-time and historical UK crime information, including street-level crime details, crime outcomes, and information about police forces. It’s widely used for building community safety dashboards, research, and operational insights because it keeps data structured and up to date across regions. With reliable coverage of reported incidents and official outcome records, it supports clearer decision-making around safety, risk, and trends.
Connecting Data.Police.UK helps BOBs continuously pull the latest UK crime signals and enrich them with official outcomes and force context. That means your business can move from “periodic research” to “always-current” safety intelligence—without manually searching datasets or building recurring reports.
BOBs can run risk and monitoring jobs on a schedule (or in response to new data events), detect changes in activity for a location, and package insights for internal stakeholders or downstream systems. Common use cases include automated community safety reporting, location-based risk checks for operations and planning, and trend monitoring that summarizes changes over time alongside relevant outcomes and which police force areas are involved.
What can BOBs do with Data.Police.UK?
Perform actions
- Fetch Forces
- Obtain Crime Outcomes
- Retrieve Crime Data
Listen to real-time events
- New Crime Reported
- New Street Level Crime Updated