Show HN: Ukpd – a Node.js module to provide access to UK Police Data

Posted by shermheadryder on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:11AM
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Re:Show HN: Ukpd – a Node.js module to provide access to UK ... by dreamer7 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:23AM (#23713395)

I was not aware that the UK police department had open data access. This is great and I hope other countries follow this model too.

I checked the crime categories and there's no mention of cyber-crime. Is there any other data source that tracks this?

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Re:Show HN: Ukpd – a Node.js module to provide access to UK ... by shermheadryder on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:48AM (#23713781)

> I checked the crime categories and there's no mention of cyber-crime.

Good spot, I haven't looked myself but there is a list (https://data.police.uk/static/files/police-uk-category-mappi...) of the full list of categories; it may be that cyber-crime falls into one of the other categories provided by the API.

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Re:Show HN: Ukpd – a Node.js module to provide access to UK ... by dreamer7 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:19PM (#23714894)

True. There are two sub-categories referencing crime involving a computer under 'Public Order'

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