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This is an independent reference site about published street-level police records in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is run privately and funded privately. Independent site. Not affiliated with any police force or the Home Office.
Police forces publish a great deal every month, and almost nothing in that publication is counted for you. The same crime can appear in several releases, categories are rewritten, months arrive late, results are matched unevenly, and small cells have to be withheld. Answering a plain question, such as how many records a force published last year and what they consisted of, needs all of that handled consistently. That is the whole purpose of this site.
We publish counts, composition and case-result profiles with their denominators and intervals. We do not publish maps, addresses, identifiers, rankings of forces, or any figure per resident until the population estimates behind it are accepted.
There is no editor photograph, no founder profile and nothing to subscribe to. For many types of crime, police recorded crime statistics do not provide a reliable measure of levels or trends in crime, and that limit is printed on the pages rather than buried here.
What you can open
Every figure on this page is tied to the accepted calculation.
What to do next
The two sides of this comparison are not the same universe, so no difference is published. Totals from the Home Office and from the national crime survey cover different things from these published street-level records and are never subtracted from them. Case results published by police and by the courts also stay separate, and results are never ranked across forces.
Open the home page and pick an area.
Limits of these figures
It does not tell you about a street or an address. Published points are moved to a shared location covering at least eight addresses, and this page describes an area.
It does not count everything that happened. These are the records forces recorded and published; for many types of crime, police recorded crime statistics do not provide a reliable measure of levels or trends in crime.
It does not describe Scotland. Only the British Transport Police supply records there, so levels would look far lower than they are, and no Scottish total is published here.
It does not give a figure per resident. Rates stay unpublished until an unrounded population estimate for the exact same area is accepted, so counts and composition are all that appear.
It does not rank forces on results. Published matching of case results ranges from about 19 to 97 percent between forces, which makes a league table of results meaningless.
Source
Street-level crime and outcomes, September 2025 to August 2026. Home Office totals and the national crime survey count different things from these published street-level records, so they are not used as a check.