Crime Data Explorer · built on data.police.uk
The numbers, over the long run.
The Crime Dashboard reads the latest snapshot. These tools go deeper — into a queryable database of years of crime, outcomes and stop & search for all of England & Wales, with every figure read carefully and its caveats kept in view.
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Force briefing
A structured, printable data briefing on any force — what’s moving, the justice gap, stop & search, and the questions worth taking to a tasking meeting.
Open →Crime & outcomes over time
Long-run trends by crime type, and the “justice gap”: how often cases end in a charge versus no suspect identified.
Open →Stop & search disproportionality
Who gets searched, how that compares with the resident population, and how often searches actually find something.
Open →Your neighbourhood team
Find your local policing team from a postcode and see the priorities they’ve publicly committed to.
Open →Forces & data quality
Force profiles, senior officers, and an honest tracker of how complete the underlying data is.
Open →Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.