Introduction
The Police API allows you to retrieve information about neighbourhood areas in all 43 English & Welsh police forces and for the Police Service of Northern Ireland. All forces are required to keep this data accurate and up to date, so the API provides a rich and definitive data source for information such as:
- Neighbourhood team members
- Upcoming events
- Crime statistics at both street and neighbourhood level
- Outcomes for street level crimes - not available for the Police Service of Northern Ireland
- Nearest police stations
The API is implemented as a standard JSON REST web service using HTTP GET requests.
Code examples are provided, but you may need to tailor these to your language of choice. There are plenty of articles on how to make cURL requests with PHP, .NET, Python and others.