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UK Police

Street-level crime and policing data for England & Wales

🔐 SecurityHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
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.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 91 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
787P50 · ms
2547P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 49 ms, slowest 1589 ms, most recent 66 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
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 · 2HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /crimes-street-dates787 mschecked 12h ago
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

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).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?

As of our last scheduled check, UK Police is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 787 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.