Primary crime and justice sources for London
The newsroom feed is only one layer. These primary sources are used to verify case status, outcomes, statistics and public accountability.
Last updated 31 July 2026
Police releases establish what a force says at a point in time; they do not independently prove a disputed allegation. Court findings and later case updates take precedence, and every dataset must be read with its period and limitations.
Metropolitan Police newsroomOfficial appeals, charges, investigation updates and policing announcements for most of Greater London.Police newsroom ↗City of London Police newsOfficial reporting from the force responsible for the Square Mile, including fraud and economic crime.Police newsroom ↗British Transport Police newsOfficial incidents, appeals and outcomes involving railways, stations and the London Underground network.Police newsroom ↗Crown Prosecution ServiceCharging, prosecution and case-outcome updates, including the London North and London South areas.Prosecution updates ↗Judiciary sentencing remarksPublished judicial reasons for sentences in selected serious and high-profile cases.Court records ↗MOPAC Evidence and InsightCrime, confidence, victim-satisfaction and policing dashboards from the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.Oversight data ↗Met Police recorded-crime dataBorough, ward and neighbourhood-level recorded-crime datasets published through the London Datastore.Download data ↗Home Office street-level crime dataMonthly anonymised street-level records used by our local crime-statistics pages.Open dataset ↗
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