Introduction
The Police API allows you to retrieve information about neighbourhood areas in all 43 English & Welsh police forces. 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 levels & statistics
- Nearest police stations
The API is implemented as a standard XML REST web service using HTTP GET/POST 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.
Whilst the API is unsupported beyond the documentation here, RKH can offer help on a commercial basis to organisations that need it, contact RKH for more information.