POLICE DATA

Crime & policing explorer

Explore street-level crime and stop-and-search data from data.police.uk. Choose a force and month; the page queries the public API when available and falls back cleanly if a browser request is blocked.

Police force

Month

Records returned—API response

Result—Selected month

Searches with forceHampshirePolice force

Data scopeEW + NIScotland not covered by this API

Stop & search categories

Categories in the records returned by the API.

Press “Load stop & search” to query data.police.uk.

Source: data.police.uk. Crime locations are approximate; force-level API coverage does not represent Scotland. Browser/API availability can vary.

Sources and notes are shown on each tool. Politics By Numbers presents descriptive statistics and does not rank places, people or political choices.

Historical comparison

Same force and month across adjacent years

Police.uk archives contain monthly snapshots and the latest archive covers three years. The next iteration can populate this panel from the selected force/month without changing the layout.