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Every force, every neighbourhood, every street. Start zoomed out — one dot per police force, coloured by its most common crime — and keep zooming until you're reading individual reports, street by street.

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Key

Crime data: data.police.uk (OGL v3.0), read live at street level — locations are anonymised map points, deliberately approximate. Boundaries, centroids & built-up areas: ONS Open Geography Portal and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0). Population denominators: ONS mid-year estimates & Census 2021. Map tiles: © OpenStreetMap contributors © CARTO.

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Interpreted by the site’s AI from data.police.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0) — AI-generated, not yet reviewed by a human editor; read with care.

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Crime & outcomes over time → Long-run trends by type, and the justice gap. Stop & search disproportionality → Who gets searched, against who lives there. Your neighbourhood team → The officers and priorities for a postcode. Forces & data quality → Who files on time, and how complete it is. Force briefing → A printable, AI-written data briefing per force. Postcode lookup → A plain-English reading of your area.

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Recorded crime · 2025/26

3,992,353 offences

By offence group (Home Office annual, England & Wales)

Violence against the person	37%
Theft offences	31%
Criminal damage and arson	9%
Public order offences	9%
Drug offences	4%
Sexual offences	4%
Miscellaneous crimes against society	2%
Robbery	2%
Possession of weapons offences	1%

12-month searches

461,540

14 of 44 forces hadn't filed April 2026 yet, so the latest month is an undercount — which is why the breakdowns use a rolling 12 months.

Who gets searched (officer-defined ethnicity)

White	61%
Black	16%
Asian	11%
Not stated	8%
Other	4%
Mixed	<1%

What officers were looking for

Controlled Drugs	53%
Not stated	15%
Offensive Weapons	11%
Stolen Goods	10%
Article For Use In Theft	5%
Evidence Of Offences Under The Act	2%
Articles For Use In Criminal Damage	1%
Other (14)	3%

What happened next (outcome)

A No Further Action Disposal	63%
Arrest	15%
Community Resolution	10%
Not stated	9%
Summons / Charged By Post	2%
Other (3)	1%

Data for April 2026, fetched 5 Jul 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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