System Category	Crime
Source	Syndicated by Astun Data Services
Available since	2011
Organisation

Introduction

The Police Downloader 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. Astun Data Services [ADS] provide a Police Downloader in the form of a WFS connection for you to download this information.

Pre-requisites

WFS connections configured in Studio contypes.xml
GDAL 1.8 or above (iShare 4.4 and above)
Full access to the URL http://syn.ads.astuntechnology.com/police/crimes/wfs

What data is provided

The data provided comes from the Police API (https://data.police.uk/docs/ and https://data.police.uk/ ) and Astun take no responsibility for the accuracy of the source data. The layers available equate to the API methods or data outlined below, with some minimal post-processing where required to add geospatial data where this is not already included.

Layers

Layer Name	Origin	Brief Description
neighbourhood_events	https://data.police.uk/docs/method/neighbourhood-events/	Details and contacts for police-related events in the neighbourhood
neighbourhood_teams	https://data.police.uk/docs/method/neighbourhood-team/	Names and bios for all police team members in the neighbourhood
neighbourhood_centroids	https://data.police.uk/docs/method/neighbourhood/	Latitude/Longitude of neighbourhood boundary centroid
neighbourhood_locations	https://data.police.uk/docs/method/neighbourhood/	Address details for each neighbourhood
neighbourhood_crimes	https://data.police.uk/	Neighbourhood level crime data
neighbourhood_boundaries	https://data.police.uk/docs/method/neighbourhood-boundary/	Neighbourhood boundaries
street_outcomes	https://data.police.uk/docs/method/outcomes-at-location/	Street-level crime outcomes
street_crimes	https://data.police.uk/docs/method/crime-street/	Street-level crime
streetcrime_crosstab		Post-processed from street_crimes

Example My Maps

Example My House

Configuring iShare for Police Downloader in Studio

The following steps outline how you can download the Police data and keep it up-to-date. First you need to open iShare Studio then you can perform the following steps:

Create a Workflow Connection to the WFS feed provided by the Astun Data Services (ADS)
Create a Job to Refresh the Police data
Update the .MAP file to include these new Police layers
Configure the Police Layers for display in iShare