Police API (data.police.uk)
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Added on November 1st, 2026
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What it does
The Police API from data.police.uk gives open data on policing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: street-level crimes and outcomes by location and month, stop and search records, police forces, neighbourhood teams and their contact details. Use it for crime maps or local information pages. Call the REST endpoints with GET and get JSON. Free, no key needed, up to 15 requests a second; the data is under the Open Government Licence.
At a glance
- API key
- Not needed · More APIs with no key
- Pricing
- Free, no key needed, up to 15 requests a second; the data is under the Open Government Licence.
- From the browser
- Yes (CORS)
- Formats
- JSON
- Interface
- REST, HTTP-GET
- Provider
- data.police.uk
More information: https://data.police.uk/docs/
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Example request
curl
curl 'https://data.police.uk/api/forces'JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://data.police.uk/api/forces");
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Python
import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://data.police.uk/api/forces",
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())The JavaScript works in a web page as well as in Node.js 18 or newer.