Police Force Boundaries - England and Wales
Source: data.gov.uk (2015-04-02)

A KML version of the Police Force boundaries in England and Wales.

Each of the 44 police forces (e.g. Avon & Somerset, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire) has a KML file containing a single polygon describing its area. Each polygon is made of up to 10,000 latitude/longitude points.

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This page provides Keyhole Markup Language (https://developers.google.com/kml/) files describing the shape of police force boundaries and individual neighbourhood policing team (NPT) boundaries. Force boundaries stay constant, but NPT boundaries may change each month, depending on operational policing requirements.

See the changelog (/changelog/) for known data issues.

Force boundaries

Force boundaries (/data/boundaries/force_kmls.zip) (5.8 MB) a26ecd7130496617eb7e322353805ad7

Neighbourhood boundaries for 2025

November 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-11.zip) (41.7 MB) 43d8d5c8fd65f8d9636b5b0340583589

October 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-10.zip) (41.7 MB) 2ec2b2c37493bb5020d949d6ea29240e

September 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-09.zip) (41.7 MB) bc748c1136a3b0600e806d9c93a25bd3

August 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-08.zip) (41.8 MB) 1cb7b583fbc055c7601b1bccca864712

July 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-07.zip) (41.8 MB) d1b8da971447d862f8c188e3c8496a65

June 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-06.zip) (40.8 MB) 6330eb11c0635fa8f8abe329a9443481

May 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-05.zip) (39.5 MB) ebb189bef619e40c47ad367ef1e25b4a

April 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-04.zip) (39.3 MB) c35abec8f97331ae321d61ed698b1ccf

March 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-03.zip) (39.3 MB) 8789d839425c336a758d4b4a73459357

February 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-02.zip) (38.9 MB) e9ab52b6f164fe11eda68435e97fdae9

January 2025 (/data/boundaries/2025-01.zip) (38.9 MB) 7bedec7ff5876ee3051193ed2cc3b40b

Neighbourhood boundaries for 2024

December 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-12.zip) (38.7 MB) 39863690a930e51eb919c7ab20958d44

November 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-11.zip) (38.7 MB) ae2f3e2a6ee29b620b9748d638a155ed

October 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-10.zip) (38.7 MB) c944d9b74810eced110dd18109cb9ecf

September 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-09.zip) (38.7 MB) 7eace2e0acb8d4a6cdc25fca238aade3

August 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-08.zip) (38.7 MB) a469006b1bb7234b4b0cd1f3d1072695

July 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-07.zip) (38.6 MB) 33374288ade843acf9d063aceb209b64

June 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-06.zip) (38.6 MB) 639384ce6e8accc7b42a98876722934f

May 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-05.zip) (38.6 MB) e454bc2df7fa6fc37393fe48db6a9382

April 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-04.zip) (38.6 MB) 4219ebe9e9783ab491b8e7a59c1921a7

March 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-03.zip) (38.0 MB) cd69a7002877695136cc7b81b947527c

February 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-02.zip) (37.6 MB) 7dad75d85f6246cb84e7dacdde4e2518

January 2024 (/data/boundaries/2024-01.zip) (37.5 MB) cec4bfb6f44b878f8c9fa7f29cd64182

Neighbourhood boundaries for 2023

December 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-12.zip) (37.5 MB) 62e21de4fe9a08da1d14c8cd87021e07

November 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-11.zip) (37.5 MB) 0ef176e60b28fc0381b369666d6fc0be

October 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-10.zip) (37.2 MB) 37a6c6d637220c77b4b2bd3b11ea0104

September 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-09.zip) (22.5 MB) 8035d270e7fe6b77a862cc73bd43b1c8

August 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-08.zip) (29.1 MB) a8b0b15eb42bf2a35e5f833faa405667

July 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-07.zip) (30.5 MB) 632ad5a83e95316d2975b4c311b10e61

June 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-06.zip) (37.0 MB) b1f90b19e6ddd23bcf6ba812c32c1e21

May 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-05.zip) (37.5 MB) d696a88513916bcdcee8f1356468f5f2

April 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-04.zip) (37.5 MB) f4a801a39bf63cc79fc2979b514dbfb4

March 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-03.zip) (37.5 MB) 6a9636c1c3858574dbd73cafe1846d9b

February 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-02.zip) (37.5 MB) 3d68088c8be5f6244f7b4aaa714e6b83

January 2023 (/data/boundaries/2023-01.zip) (38.6 MB) 2ac1716f431349c7f19206dd10b61d29

Neighbourhood boundaries for 2022

December 2022 (/data/boundaries/2022-12.zip) (38.5 MB) bef51c58907c8beefa5629f100d5ea26

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