The police crime map for the UK is the street-level crime data that forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland publish every month through data.police.uk and police.uk. On 23 October 2026 the latest month is still August 2026, and three forces have no crime data for it: Greater Manchester Police, Gloucestershire Constabulary and British Transport Police. British Transport Police has sent no crime data for any month since March 2025, so railway crime is missing from every 12-month view.
Data: data.police.uk about page, changelog and API documentation, and police.uk neighbourhood pages, checked 5 October 2026; data.police.uk changelog, about page and API (crimes-street-dates) re-checked 23 October 2026. Latest data month: August 2026. Month counts in the gaps table are our own reading of the changelog. Updated 23 October 2026.
Key figures: the police crime map (checked 23 October 2026)
- Latest month published: August 2026 (data.police.uk changelog).
- Providers: the 43 geographic police forces of England and Wales, British Transport Police, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI also publishes its own monthly district counts: see is Belfast safe?) and the Ministry of Justice. Scotland is not included.
- Every crime is moved to an anonymous map point; 679,089 of those points are on streets, and each one covers at least eight postal addresses or none.
- Location accuracy ranges from 60% to 97% depending on the force.
- No August 2026 crime data from 3 forces: Greater Manchester, Gloucestershire and British Transport Police.
- British Transport Police: no crime data for 18 months in a row, March 2025 to August 2026.
What is the police crime map?
The police crime map is the official street-level crime and anti-social behaviour data for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, shown on police.uk and released as open data on data.police.uk. Forces upload it monthly, so in October 2026 the newest month is August 2026. Each dot is an approximate location, never a specific home.
There are two official places to look. police.uk gives each policing neighbourhood a page with the last 12 months of totals, the top categories for the latest month and the local team. data.police.uk holds the same records as downloadable files and an API, which is what independent tools such as our UK crime map and postcode checker are built on. The figures are the same; the presentation differs.
Safety App UK is not a police service and is not part of police.uk. Safety App UK shows this police data on a live map, plans safer walking routes and sends SOS to your trusted circle. In an emergency always call 999, and use 101 for non-emergencies.
How do I use the police crime map to check a street?
To check a street on the police crime map, enter its postcode on police.uk to find the neighbourhood, or type it into our postcode checker for a one-mile count. Then zoom in on the crime map to see whether the incidents sit on that street or on a nearby high street, station or park. Use 12 months, not one.
- Start with the postcode. Our postcode checker counts crimes within a 1-mile radius of the point, which is exactly how a data.police.uk street-level query by location works, and shows them month by month.
- Open the map. On the crime map, zoom to the street. If most dots cluster on one point, that point is usually a shop, car park or station, not the houses around it.
- Look at the categories. Shoplifting and vehicle crime tell you something very different from violence or burglary.
- Check the neighbourhood page on police.uk. It names the local team and its current priorities, which often explain a cluster (for example a known problem with anti-social behaviour in one square).
- Compare with a similar area. A town centre should be compared with another town centre, not with a quiet residential road.
Why are the dots on the police crime map not exact?
The dots on the police crime map are not exact because every crime is snapped to the nearest anonymous map point to protect victims. Points sit over the centre of a street or over a public place such as a park, station or nightclub, and each covers at least eight postal addresses or none at all, data.police.uk explains.
Points with one to seven addresses were removed so that a dot can never point to one household. Besides the 679,089 street points, the list includes places such as 24,510 sports and recreation areas and 14,051 parks and open spaces. If the nearest point is more than 20 km away, the coordinates are zeroed out. Forces also geocode differently, which is why data.police.uk puts location accuracy anywhere between 60% and 97%.
In practice this means a dot on a street with ten incidents tells you those ten were recorded somewhere along that street or close to it. It does not tell you which house, and a long road can collect incidents from several blocks.
Which forces are missing from the police crime map?
For August 2026 the data.police.uk changelog lists no crime data from Greater Manchester Police, Gloucestershire Constabulary or British Transport Police. Greater Manchester currently has no crime, outcome or stop and search data while it moves to a new IT system. Police Scotland is not a provider at all.
| Force or area | What the map shows (checked 23 October 2026) | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Manchester Police | "Currently no crime, outcome or stop and search data is available", while the force moves to a new IT system | data.police.uk changelog |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | Crime data not provided for each month from February to August 2026; neighbourhood pages fall to 0 or 1 a month from February 2026 | data.police.uk changelog, police.uk |
| British Transport Police | Crime data not provided for any month from March 2025 to August 2026 (18 months); no outcome data either | data.police.uk changelog, about page |
| Police Service of Northern Ireland | Crime is on the map, but no outcome data | data.police.uk about page |
| Police Scotland | Not a data provider, so no Scottish streets on the map | data.police.uk about page |
Stop and search data is also missing for August 2026 from a longer list of forces, including the Metropolitan Police Service, but that does not affect the crime counts on the map.
Which months are missing from the police crime map in the last 12 months?
In the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026, three forces have lasting gaps on the police crime map: Greater Manchester Police and British Transport Police sent no crime data for any of the 12 months, and Gloucestershire Constabulary sent none for the last seven, February to August 2026 (data.police.uk changelog, checked 23 October 2026).
Other gaps were short and were later filled. When a force misses a monthly upload, the changelog says it "will provide a data refresh as soon as possible", and most did. The table is our own reading of the changelog for every force that missed at least one month of crime data in the period.
| Force | Months with no crime data at upload (Sep 2025 to Aug 2026) | Filled later? (changelog, 23 Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Manchester Police | 12 of 12 | No |
| British Transport Police | 12 of 12 (every month since March 2025) | No |
| Gloucestershire Constabulary | 7 (Feb to Aug 2026) | No |
| Gwent Police | 8 (Sep 2025 to Apr 2026) | Yes, one refresh listed in May 2026 |
| Sussex Police | 1 (Jan 2026) | No refresh listed |
| Northumbria Police | 1 (Feb 2026) | Yes, March 2026 |
| Lincolnshire Police | 1 (May 2026) | Yes, June 2026 |
| North Yorkshire Police | 1 (Jul 2026) | Yes, August 2026 |
| City of London Police | 1 (Sep 2025) | Yes, October 2025 |
| Cumbria Constabulary | 1 (Sep 2025) | Yes, October 2025 |
Source: data.police.uk changelog, "Crime data not provided" and "Crime data refresh" entries, checked 23 October 2026. Counts are our own arithmetic.
The two long gaps matter most. British Transport Police records crime on trains, platforms and stations, so a 12-month count for a postcode next to a busy station, such as Stratford or Walthamstow, leaves out what happened inside the station; only street incidents recorded by the local force remain. Greater Manchester is missing altogether, and our Manchester crime map page explains what to use there instead.
The short gaps matter for anyone who saved figures early. Gwent’s eight missing months were filled in a single refresh in May 2026, so a Newport or Cwmbran trend downloaded before then would have shown a fall that never happened. A month that was refreshed is complete now; a screenshot taken before the refresh is not.
Why does my area show almost no crime on the police crime map?
An area that shows almost no crime on the police crime map is often an area whose force has not sent data, not a crime-free area. In Gloucestershire and Greater Manchester in October 2026, police.uk neighbourhood pages show zero or one crime for months where the force supplied nothing.
We read the police.uk pages for three neighbourhoods on 5 October 2026 to see what a gap looks like in practice:
| Neighbourhood (force) | Sep 2025 to Jan 2026 | Feb to Aug 2026 | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheltenham Town Centre (Gloucestershire) | 1,332 (308, 287, 242, 240, 255) | 4 | Data stops after January 2026 |
| Barton, Tredworth and White City, Gloucester (Gloucestershire) | 817 (158, 162, 153, 157, 187) | 2 | Same pattern |
| Airport (Greater Manchester) | 0 | 1 | One crime in 12 months at a major airport: the force is not publishing |
The Cheltenham figures are our own reading of police.uk: about 266 crimes a month before the gap and fewer than one a month after it. Anyone checking a Gloucestershire street on any tool built on this data would see a drop of over 99% that never happened. If your area suddenly looks empty, check the data.police.uk changelog before drawing a conclusion. For Manchester, our page on crime in Manchester explains what force-wide figures can tell you instead.
How recent is the police crime map?
The police crime map runs one to two months behind. On 23 October 2026 the newest month on data.police.uk is still August 2026 (data.police.uk API, checked that day), so nothing from September or October is shown yet. Each upload is a snapshot of a force’s records at the end of the month, and crimes can be reclassified later.
The lag also varies between neighbourhoods: some police.uk pages already end in August 2026, while others still end a month earlier. When you compare two places, make sure both cover the same 12 months.
Does the police crime map include anti-social behaviour?
Yes. The police crime map and data.police.uk include anti-social behaviour alongside crime, and it can be a large share. In August 2026 police.uk recorded 44 anti-social behaviour incidents out of 217 in Hackney Central (about 20%) but 76 out of 257 in neighbouring Dalston (about 30%), by our calculation.
This matters when you compare the map with a crime rate. Many rate tables, including CrimeRate.co.uk, leave anti-social behaviour out of the headline figure, so a map count will usually be higher than the matching rate suggests. Our Hackney page shows both versions side by side, and the London borough ranking uses rates per 1,000 people.
What does the police crime map not show?
| Not shown | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Exact addresses | Locations are snapped to anonymous points covering at least eight addresses. |
| Time of day | Street-level data has the month only, so it cannot say whether a street is busier with incidents at night. |
| Unreported crime | The map holds what police recorded. A place where people report more readily can look worse than it is. |
| A rate per resident | The map gives counts. A busy high street with few residents always looks high; divide by population before comparing. |
| Missing forces | Greater Manchester, Gloucestershire (from February 2026) and British Transport Police (March 2025 to August 2026) are absent or incomplete. |
| Scotland | Police Scotland does not publish to data.police.uk. |
Our page on where our crime data comes from covers the full pipeline, and how to check crime in your area compares police.uk with the other ways to look up a postcode.
Is Safety App UK the police crime map?
No. Safety App UK is an independent app that displays official police data from data.police.uk on its own map. It is not run by or connected to any police force or to police.uk. To report a crime, contact the police directly: 999 in an emergency, 101 or online otherwise.
What the app adds is the use of the same data on the move: a live map around you, walking routes that avoid areas with more recorded crime, and an SOS that shares your location with people you trust. The data limits on this page apply to it too.
police.uk, our crime map or our postcode checker: which should I use?
Use police.uk to find who polices an area and what they are working on, our crime map to see where incidents sit on a street, and our postcode checker to compare 12 months around one postcode with another. All three draw on the same data.police.uk records, latest month August 2026.
| Tool | What it shows | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| police.uk neighbourhood page (official) | 12 months of totals for one policing neighbourhood, top categories for the latest month, the local team and its priorities | Knowing who polices an area and why a problem is on their list |
| Safety App UK crime map (independent) | Points for the latest month across whatever area is on screen, grouped into clusters, with the top categories | Seeing which street, station or shop the incidents cluster on |
| Safety App UK postcode checker (independent) | 12 months of crime within about a mile of a postcode, month by month | Comparing one postcode with another |
Source: police.uk and data.police.uk; our own tools. Latest month August 2026, checked 23 October 2026.
To use the map itself, open the UK crime map; this page explains the official data behind it and where it falls short.
Police crime map: FAQ
Is the police crime map free?
Yes. police.uk, data.police.uk, our UK crime map and our postcode checker are all free to use and need no account.
What is the latest month on the police crime map?
August 2026, as checked on 23 October 2026. Forces publish monthly with a lag of one to two months, so September 2026 is not yet available.
Why are crimes at railway stations missing from the police crime map?
British Transport Police, which records crime on trains and at stations, sent no crime data to data.police.uk for any month from March 2025 to August 2026. Street incidents outside stations, recorded by the local force, are still on the map.
Why is Greater Manchester missing from the police crime map?
The data.police.uk changelog says Greater Manchester Police currently has no crime, outcome or stop and search data available while it moves to a new IT system. Street-level Manchester figures are therefore not on the map.
Can I see crimes at a specific house?
No. Every crime is placed on an anonymous map point over a street or public place with at least eight postal addresses, or none, so the map never identifies a single home or victim.
Does the police crime map cover Scotland?
No. data.police.uk lists the forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, British Transport Police and the Ministry of Justice. Scottish figures come from the Scottish Government and Police Scotland.
For what to do after a crime or a frightening incident, see our sister site safety-app.co.uk.