Police.uk places every mapped crime on or near a street, month by month, for the forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Our Police.uk scraper collects it area by area.
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Tell us the geography and the period - a list of postcodes, a set of neighbourhoods or whole force areas - and the tabs you need, and we build the extraction, run it and keep it running when Police.uk reworks its pages. Anti-bot handling, proxy rotation and page rendering are included in what you pay for, so a run does not stall halfway through a force.
Crime figures on Police.uk move forward one month at a time, so most projects run monthly, soon after a new month appears, with a one-off backfill of the months the site still shows. Every row is stamped with force, neighbourhood and month, the first delivery includes documentation of every column, and a free assessment of your area list comes before any of it.
Police.uk organises everything by place: a police force, then its neighbourhoods, and each neighbourhood page split into Overview, Crime map, Stop and search and Statistics tabs. Our extract follows that tree, so every value arrives with the force and neighbourhood it belongs to and the month it describes.
Officer names on team pages are left out by default. Nothing else in these records points to a person: crime points are anonymised by the site and stop and search arrives as aggregates.
The Police.uk crime map shows one month at a time, and the newest month usually trails the calendar by about two months. History therefore comes from repeated runs: we keep each month as its own slice, keyed on street id, category and month, so a series per street, neighbourhood or force builds up run after run, and outcome changes on older crimes are caught when a recent month is read again.
Coverage starts from the location search - a postcode, street address or area - or from a force's list of neighbourhoods, and can take in every force on the site, British Transport Police among them. Crimes on a moving train are attributed to the end destination of the journey, which matters when rail figures sit next to neighbourhood figures.
Above the neighbourhood sits each force's Performance section: 999 Performance data with call answering times, 101 Performance data, Compare your area, Case length, Police workforce diversity and Police financial reserves. These force-level tables join street crime in one dataset on the force name. The site also runs in Welsh, behind its Cymraeg switch.
Police.uk is the public website for policing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and its location search answers only for places those forces cover. Crime and anti-social behaviour data on it comes from the individual police forces, and the site presents it through one page per force and one per neighbourhood, with the local team's contact routes and a link to the force's Police and Crime Commissioner.
The crime map is built around privacy. Before release, the Information Commissioner's Office and Home Office data protection specialists agreed a process that removes personal details; each crime is shown at an anonymous point on or near a street, and a crime whose anonymised point would land more than 20 km from where it happened is not mapped at all. The map states how many incidents in the force could not be mapped to a location.
Outcomes have rules of their own. Anti-social behaviour carries no outcome; where a court gave several sentences, only the most punitive is displayed; and when several offenders were charged, one crime can list the same outcome, such as Suspect charged, more than once. The three-year graphs are reported by quarter rather than by month. The same category names, outcome labels and stop and search groupings run across forces, which is what makes areas comparable.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsPolice.uk gives the same street-level grain for every force it covers, which is why its figures travel well beyond policing.
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ScrapeIt runs scraping projects end to end for clients who need data rather than tools. Public sector sources like Police.uk suit that model: the structure is stable, and the value lies in an unbroken monthly series that someone has to keep collecting. We deliver area crime data as CSV, XLSX or JSON, by SFTP, Amazon S3 or our API, and we handle personal data under GDPR - on this source, mainly by keeping officer names out.
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Yes. The ScrapeIt Police.uk API serves month, crime category, approximate location, street id and latest outcome per force and neighbourhood as JSON through an endpoint we host, updated on the schedule you choose. You can take the same rows as CSV or XLSX, as a JSON feed, or loaded into your database.
Yes. Street-level crime, outcomes, stop and search statistics and neighbourhood pages are shown on Police.uk to every visitor, already anonymised by the site. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on Police.uk - and we collect it legally.
Deliberately approximate. Each crime is moved to an anonymous point on or near a street, and crimes that would land more than 20 km away are left off the map, with a count of them shown instead. We deliver the street label and street id exactly as Police.uk shows them and never try to undo the anonymisation.
Monthly. New figures arrive one month at a time, generally around two months after the month they describe, and outcomes on earlier crimes can still change. We schedule runs to follow each new month and re-read recent months for outcome updates, stamping every row with the month and the run date.
Yes. We start from each force's list of neighbourhoods, or from your postcodes, and collect the same tabs everywhere, so one table holds every force with force, neighbourhood and month columns. British Transport Police comes in as its own force, with train crimes placed at the end destination of the journey.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
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