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UK Police

Street-level crime and policing data for England & Wales

🔐 SecurityUNMONITORED
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ?HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

The data.police.uk API opens up street-level crimes, outcomes, stop-and-search records, and neighbourhood boundaries from UK police forces. This endpoint lists which months of data each force has published. Free, keyless, and released under the Open Government Licence.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://data.police.uk/api/crimes-street-dates

[
  {
    "date": "2026-04",
    "stop-and-search": [
      "avon-and-somerset",
      "btp",
      "cambridgeshire",
      "…"
    ]
  },
  {
    "date": "2026-03",
    "stop-and-search": [
      "avon-and-somerset",
      "bedfordshire",
      "…"
    ]
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://data.police.uk/api/crimes-street-dates"
const res = await fetch("https://data.police.uk/api/crimes-street-dates");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://data.police.uk/api/crimes-street-dates")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 2On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /crimes-street-dates awaits first probe
GET/crimes-street-datesPROBED

Street-level crime and policing data for England & Wales

GET/crimes-street-dates?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

UK Police: common questions

Is UK Police free to use?

Yes — UK Police is a free security API. Free tier: Free — no key required. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does UK Police need an API key?

No — UK Police needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call UK Police from the browser?

Yes — UK Police returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is UK Police up right now?

UK Police is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.