Licensing & attribution

Beacon is an independent app. Use of official information does not imply endorsement by HM Government, any department, or Police UK.

Open Government Licence v3.0

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Full licence text: National Archives — Open Government Licence v3.0.

© Crown copyright.

Some reused material may be subject to different copyright or licence notices on the source page; always check the original publication when reusing content.

GOV.UK

Beacon retrieves, summarises, and links to pages on GOV.UK as the only publisher document sources used as the basis for chat answers (see our Privacy Policy). Official pages remain the authoritative source.

GOV.UK content may carry additional copyright or licence notices on individual pages or documents; Beacon does not supersede those notices.

GOV.UK and related names and logos may be protected by trade mark and other rights; their use here is for attribution and context only.

Police UK / data.police.uk

Open data about crime and policing on data.police.uk covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland, subject to the Open Government Licence v3.0 (see the publisher’s about and data pages). Beacon hosts a street-level crime archive built from Police UK material we process through our pipeline; Beacon is not an official police product. Map analysis uses a fixed-radius circle of 150 metres around the point you choose. You choose a calendar month for the analysis within our archived range, or the latest available month. Source data may be incomplete, delayed, aggregated, anonymised at source, or revised after publication; Beacon does not guarantee completeness or timeliness. Where Beacon shows the seven-step activity bands, they summarise crime activity from those statistics — not endorsement by police or a measure of how safe an individual is (see also Office for National Statistics below when tiers are not used).

Office for National Statistics

For population-linked area rates on the map in England and Wales, Beacon uses ONS mid-year 2024 resident population held in our database for each matched LSOA (2021 geography). Wales uses the same England-and-Wales ONS tables as England; Northern Ireland is not in that publication — crime markers may still appear from Police UK, but those ONS-based area rates are not applied there. Where ONS-based tiers or rates are not used for the map centre, the app may show neutral illustration for activity bands while still plotting incident locations from open data. When we refresh data, new ONS releases do not apply automatically — we reload on our schedule. Figures are credited in-app where shown and remain subject to the publishers’ terms (including quality and methodology notes from ONS).

For how we process personal data, see our Privacy Policy. Map and open-data layers are not intended to inform personal safety, relocation, or travel decisions — see our Terms of Service (including map disclaimers).