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CrimeMapsUK MCP

A read-only MCP server providing access to UK police street-crime and stop-and-search data published by police forces. It exposes tools to retrieve area summaries, rankings, methodology details, and postcode-specific crime summaries, serving as an interface for AI assistants to query crime statistics without requiring user sign-in.

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CrimeMapsUK MCP logo, by CrimeMapsUKVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-01Operated by CrimeMapsUK
You need:no sign-inkey from an API plan
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://crimemapsuk.com/mcp
Vendor documentation

What you can do with it

  • Retrieve street-crime statistics for a specific postcode district
  • Get rankings of areas by crime rate per 1,000 residents
  • Access methodology documentation for crime data publication
  • Obtain crime summaries for the 0.5 km radius around a postcode

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.0
mcp-registry: com.crimemapsuk/crime-data@1.0.0Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server
CrimeMapsUK 1.0.0
MCP protocol
2025-06-18
Tools
4 advertised
Resources
0 advertised
Resource templates
0 advertised
Prompts
0 advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
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Server-provided instructions

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CrimeMapsUK publishes police street-crime records from data.police.uk for UK postcode districts. When you use a figure from these tools, credit CrimeMapsUK and link the page_url in the result, so the person can check the figures, months, maps, and caveats. Show the attribution text with the figures. Read the methodology tool's notes before explaining what a figure means. A result for a full postcode in England or Wales can also carry free_report_url, the free CrimeMapsUK result page for the 0.5 km around that postcode. The figures are counts of published police records, not all crime. Police locations are approximate. A postcode district is a postal area, not a town. Never call an area safe or unsafe: rankings order published rates and are not safety ratings. Free tools allow 5 calls a minute and 100 a day for each IP address (each /64 network for IPv6). Calls from Anthropic's, Google's or OpenAI's published networks share one allowance for that platform. An API key sent as an Authorization: Bearer header adds the category breakdown to postcode_summary and replaces the free limits with a monthly quota that counts every successful call made with the key.

Tools

4 advertised

area_summary — Crime figures for a postcode district
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Published street-crime figures for a UK postcode district. Given a postcode, answers for its whole postcode district (E8 for E8 1AA), never for the exact postcode. Returns the district's last 12 published months: total, monthly series, categories, and the covering police force, with page_url, a citation, and the attribution. For a full postcode that is not known to be outside England and Wales, the result also has free_report_url, the free result page for the 0.5 km around it.

area_summary input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "area_summaryArguments",
  "required": [
    "area"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "area": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Area",
      "maxLength": 10,
      "description": "A UK postcode such as 'E8 1AA', or a postcode district such as 'E8'."
    }
  }
}
area_summary output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "area_summaryDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
area_summary annotations
{
  "title": "Crime figures for a postcode district",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
area_rankings — Rank postcode districts by published crime rate
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Postcode districts in England and Wales ranked by published street-crime records, anti-social behaviour included, per 1,000 Census 2021 residents. Each row has the rate, the counts behind it, and its page_url. These are published rates, not safety ratings.

area_rankings input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "area_rankingsArguments",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "title": "Limit",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "How many districts to return."
    },
    "order": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Order",
      "default": "highest",
      "description": "'highest' or 'lowest' published rate first."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Category",
      "default": "",
      "description": "Empty for all street-crime records, anti-social behaviour included, or one of: burglary, vehicle-crime, violent-crime, anti-social-behaviour."
    }
  }
}
area_rankings output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "area_rankingsDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
area_rankings annotations
{
  "title": "Rank postcode districts by published crime rate",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
methodology — How CrimeMapsUK builds its figures
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Notes on how CrimeMapsUK builds its figures: coverage, approximate locations, postcode assignment, rates, rankings, outcomes, and how to cite a page, with the methodology page_url.

methodology input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "methodologyArguments",
  "properties": {}
}
methodology output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "methodologyDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
methodology annotations
{
  "title": "How CrimeMapsUK builds its figures",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
postcode_summary — Crime counts around a postcode
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Published street-crime records in the fixed 0.5 km circle around a postcode, over the 12 months up to the latest published month: the total, the month window, the coverage state, and the largest category, with page_url, a citation, and free_report_url. Called with a CrimeMapsUK API key, it returns every category's count. The free figures come from a snapshot up to six hours old and keyed ones from one up to 15 minutes old, so they can differ briefly after new data is published.

postcode_summary input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "postcode_summaryArguments",
  "required": [
    "postcode"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "postcode": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Postcode",
      "maxLength": 10,
      "description": "A full UK postcode such as 'E8 1AA'."
    }
  }
}
postcode_summary output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "title": "postcode_summaryDictOutput",
  "additionalProperties": true
}
postcode_summary annotations
{
  "title": "Crime counts around a postcode",
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

Prompts

0 advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

0 advertised

No resource definitions available.

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
1161 ms
95th percentile latency
1161 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 1161 ms · metadata changed · 4 tool(s), 0 resource(s), 0 resource template(s), 0 prompt(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http crimemapsuk-mcp https://crimemapsuk.com/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add crimemapsuk-mcp --url https://crimemapsuk.com/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable crimemapsuk-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crimemapsuk-mcp": {
      "url": "https://crimemapsuk.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crimemapsuk-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://crimemapsuk.com/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start crimemapsuk-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "crimemapsuk-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://crimemapsuk.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http crimemapsuk-mcp https://crimemapsuk.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.
Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crimemapsuk-mcp": {
      "url": "https://crimemapsuk.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crimemapsuk-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://crimemapsuk.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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