Metropolitan Police Crime Figures with Victim and Hate Crime Categories

Metropolitan Police Service and the Mayors Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) supply raw data on crime across London. The dataset includes over 30 categories, such as total notifiable offences, victim-based crime, violence, knife and gun crime, hate crimes, and police strength figures. Last updated on 2026-07-08, the data is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in serious youth violence and gang violence indicators based on the listed crime categories.
• Model public confidence in police based on quarterly satisfaction and fear of crime survey data.
• Study demographic patterns in hate crimes based on categories for homophobic, racist, religious, faith, and disability hate victims.
• Correlate police resource allocation with crime rates using police strength figures for officers, sergeants, and staff.

Strengths

• Includes over 30 distinct crime categories, from homicide to stop and search totals.
• Provides both pan-London and borough-level data for spatial analysis.
• Contains quarterly data on public satisfaction and fear of crime for temporal trend analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Fraud offence data is recorded separately by Action Fraud and not included in this dataset.

Provenance

Source

Metropolitan Police Service and the Mayors Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).

Collection Method

Recorded crime figures and survey data supplied by the police service.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:03.793010; freshness should be verified.

Geography

London, United Kingdom.