Dataset
Police media releases and official publications
Media releases, news, alerts and notices published by official bodies, collected as they appear, normalised into one schema and kept permanently. Every edit a publisher makes in place becomes a new version, and a document the publisher later deletes stays in the archive, marked removed. Each publisher is listed with its jurisdiction, type, licence and required attribution, so one query can ask for police releases in a state, from one publisher, or from one of a publisher's own sections.
- Coverage
- South Australia Police media releases, collected continuously since 26 September 2026 from all 16 of its listing sections: the front page lists, four metropolitan districts, seven regions, traffic, public transport and missing persons. 756 releases, measured 2026-10-22. Tasmania Police media releases and news from 30 June 2010 to the present, collected from the publisher's feed: 9,179 documents, measured 2026-10-22, 260 of them news posts and the rest media releases. 9,156 have an extract: 3,474 with a place (2,056 on a street, 1,418 on a locality), 1,769 with an event time, 5,446 with a category and 4,240 flagged as asking the public for information. About 85 older releases whose address redirects to a newer story are not stored. Other publishers are added one at a time and listed at /api/v1/publishers.
- Freshness
- South Australia Police: front-page lists are read every 5 minutes and every other section every 20 to 30, with a full walk of every section once a day. Tasmania Police: the newest two pages of its feed are read every 15 minutes, and every page of the feed once a week, on Sunday. An edit appears as a new version on the next read.
- Provenance
- Each publisher's own website, under the licence recorded in the publisher registry and listed at /api/v1/attribution. South Australia Police and Tasmania Police releases are used under CC BY 4.0.
- Access
- Every plan: free keys see the last 7 days, paid plans the whole archive.