Public Safety Incident Reports for the City of Sherbrooke Over Three Years

Public safety incidents occurring on the territory of the City of Sherbrooke over the past three years. The dataset includes incident type, description, and date, with location data reported to the nearest road intersection. It is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on April 22, -2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in public safety incidents based on the incident date field.
• Map incident hotspots based on the geospatial location data referenced to the road network.
• Categorize and model incident frequency based on the coded incident type attribute.

Strengths

• Covers a three-year time range of municipal incidents.
• Provides multiple file formats including CSV and GEOJSON for accessibility.
• Includes geospatial location data referenced to the road network.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Likely collected from municipal public safety reporting systems.

Time Range

Past three years (relative to dataset creation/update).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:45:20.442265; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.