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UK Police Data API

The checked crime dataset covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland from September 2023 through August 2026 and is updated monthly; Scotland is represented only by British Transport Police data. Point crime queries cover a one-mile radius, while custom polygons returning more than 10,000 crimes fail with HTTP 503.

Open data.police.uk
Signal Scoredraft model
100
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
OGL-UK-3.0 · terms linked
20
Evidence
6 source links checked
20
Freshness
verified 2026-11-01
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
20

// Terms and limits

Access
none
Free tier
No key. Street-crime point queries cover one mile; polygons with more than 10,000 crimes return HTTP 503.
Rate limits
15 requests per second on average, burst of 30
Licence
OGL-UK-3.0terms
Licence note
The provider labels the crime and stop-and-search datasets Open Government Licence v3.0. The licence permits commercial and non-commercial reuse with source acknowledgement, subject to its exclusions.
Attribution
Required when no specific provider statement is supplied: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-01

  1. 01data.police.uk/docs/
  2. 02data.police.uk/about/
  3. 03data.police.uk/docs/authentication/
  4. 04data.police.uk/docs/api-call-limits/
  5. 05data.police.uk/docs/method/crime-street/
  6. 06data.police.uk/api/crimes-street/all-crime?lat=52.629729&lng=-1.131592&date=2026-08

// Good for

osintevent-datageospatialhistorical-datarisk

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "uk-police-data-api"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
{
  "name": "UK Police Data API",
  "slug": "uk-police-data-api",
  "domain": "OSINT",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "none",
  "rateLimits": "15 requests per second on average, burst of 30",
  "license": "OGL-UK-3.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-01",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://data.police.uk/docs/",
    "https://data.police.uk/about/",
    "https://data.police.uk/docs/authentication/",
    "https://data.police.uk/docs/api-call-limits/",
    "https://data.police.uk/docs/method/crime-street/",
    "https://data.police.uk/api/crimes-street/all-crime?lat=52.629729&lng=-1.131592&date=2026-08"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "osint",
    "event-data",
    "geospatial",
    "historical-data",
    "risk"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://data.police.uk/docs/"
}

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