Find out about police activity at an address?

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Does anyone know how/if you can find out about police activity at a particular address?

We are looking at a new house. The sellers tell us everything is fine but I've heard from others living in the neighbourhood that the house next door is trouble. I want to check if I can.

An ex-colleague said she'd looked up police activity on a house she bought but we are not in touch any more so I can't find out how she did it. I have crime figures for the area but that's not what I'm after, I would like to know how much police involvement there has been at this one specific address if possible.

Thank you.

I had no idea you could do this!

www.ourwatch.org.uk/crime-map

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That's great, thank you! It looks like this map shows arrests. My ex-colleague said she'd been able to get a list of all the times police had visited an address and what for. How would she have got that? Maybe she knobbed a police officer to look it up for her!

There’s this too:

www.police.uk/pu/your-area/metropolitan-police-service/junction/?tab=CrimeMap

Why go near it if the house next door is trouble? Lucky escape.

Most of the maps above only have the locality, I think the OP is looking for an individual address (which these don't have).

Someone mentioned before about googling the address and see if anything comes up in the local press, although that would need a specific offence to have happened, not just 'police visiting'.

Are you nearby to be able to do drivebys on a friday / saturday evening?

Thank you everyone. Yeah, I'm after details of the police activity at the specific address. I'm becoming convinced that my ex-colleague shagged a copper to get this information

I absolutely love the house that's on the market and I've been waiting for something to come up in the area for a while which is why I'd like to keep going with the purchase but only if I can find out about the neighbours for certain.

I don't think there is anything publically available other than the types of links listed above. One way to "snoop" out an address is to google the street address and then the word arrest. If a common street name, then include the town as well. Local newspapers often have court listings which say "Joe Bloggs of Main Street was arrested for blah blah". It won't have the house number, but helps you narrow down if there might be a problem. Another way is to join the local facebook discussion page for your town, then if it is a searchable group, search the group for any posts about a particular street. You can find out all sorts that way...people complaining about noise, bonfires, any recent crimes etc.

If the above isn't telling you much then I would park up (inconspicuously) in the street for about 15-20 mins at different days/times and just see what you observe. We did this with a house we just bought probably on about 5 occasions, also multiple drivebys. You can find out a lot about an area and potential neighbours just by quietly sitting and observing what goes on. I appreciate this might make me sound a bit odd, but previous experience of a hidden neighbour problem made this a necessity for our next purchase.

@thekaratekid

I don't think there is anything publically available other than the types of links listed above. One way to "snoop" out an address is to google the street address and then the word arrest. If a common street name, then include the town as well. Local newspapers often have court listings which say "Joe Bloggs of Main Street was arrested for blah blah". It won't have the house number, but helps you narrow down if there might be a problem. Another way is to join the local facebook discussion page for your town, then if it is a searchable group, search the group for any posts about a particular street. You can find out all sorts that way...people complaining about noise, bonfires, any recent crimes etc.

If the above isn't telling you much then I would park up (inconspicuously) in the street for about 15-20 mins at different days/times and just see what you observe. We did this with a house we just bought probably on about 5 occasions, also multiple drivebys. You can find out a lot about an area and potential neighbours just by quietly sitting and observing what goes on. I appreciate this might make me sound a bit odd, but previous experience of a hidden neighbour problem made this a necessity for our next purchase.

Nope, not odd at all. Me and my mum did this when she was thinking of buying a new house. Illuminating stuff.

I've had a look in the local press but nothing. I'll keep digging.

Thanks everyone

A list of arrests at a specific address would probably be a data protection breach and generally illegal!

A friend of mine did ring the local police station about a house she was going to buy and they recommended she avoid it without giving specific details (she had 2 little kids and I think there were high levels of drug use in the area)

That information is available on the PNC and it's an offence to access it for personal interests.

Police officers and civilian workers have been fired for using the PNC for a variety of uses.

There is no way to find out details of crime at an individual address. Information is only available at street level. However, an alarmingly low number of people are responsible for an alarmingly high number of crimes so if it’s not a hugely long street in a fairly normal area and you can see a lot of crime there, it’s more than likely centred around one or two houses in that street.

I’ve used street check and neighbourhood watch, plus sign up to the local
Facebook page and check the local parish council reports - often the local pcso report to them regarding local activity. You can usually build quite a good idea of whats happened from them.