Evidence-backed facts
- The Police API provides JSON access to police forces, neighbourhoods, street-level crime, outcomes, stop-and-search data, events, stations, categories, and data availability for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. informative
- The API no longer requires authentication and public access does not grant case-system, exact-location, person-identification, police-operation, reporting, or enforcement authority. informative
- Clients must bind force, neighbourhood, location or polygon, category, and month, use POST for long polygons, respect fifteen requests per second with burst thirty, and handle 429 and size-limit failures. informative
- Crime and stop data is monthly, force-supplied, quality-checked, anonymised, and geographically approximate and is not official performance statistics or proof of an incident, person, guilt, risk, or current police activity. informative