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The displayed month can lag behind today. Check the period shown in the results rather than treating the numbers as current incidents.
Public data · Context matters
Explore the data.
Understand its limits.
Search published police-recorded crime near a UK postcode, then consider the figures in context. This is an information tool, not a measure of an individual property or a prediction of risk.
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Crime Check
A clearer view.
Not a verdict.
Enter a postcode in the tool below to explore recent published crime reports. The figures come from police.uk data and are released monthly; they are not a live incident feed. Map positions are approximate, and not every crime is reported or shown.
Use the results as one piece of context. They cannot establish the security needs of a person, home or business on their own.
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Search a postcode.
View the latest available police-recorded street-level incidents within approximately one mile. No account is needed. The postcode is sent to Postcodes.io for location lookup, the coordinates to the Police.uk API for results, and map tiles are requested from OpenStreetMap. This page does not store your search.
Enter a postcode to explore the latest available data.
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recorded incidents within approximately one mile
Points are approximate and may represent multiple incidents. The postcode centre is shown only to orient the map.
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What the figures
can—and cannot—say.
Approximate points
Police.uk street-level locations are anonymised. A map marker does not identify the precise place where a crime happened.
Know the gaps
Some forces have missing data. Published police feeds can have gaps; low or absent results must not be read as proof of low crime.
Sources: Police.uk street-level API, Police.uk data issues and Police.uk data guidance. Coverage and publication dates may change.
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