About Durham Update
What is Durham Update?
Durham Update is a crime incident tracker for Durham Region, Ontario. It pulls publicly available occurrence data from the Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) and presents it in a searchable, filterable table — giving you a historical view of reported incidents across the region.
Each entry shows the crime type, approximate location or nearest intersection, date of occurrence, patrol zone, and district. You can filter by crime type, date range, and zone, or use the Radius Search to find incidents within a set distance of any address or location.
What is it for?
Durham Update exists to make public police data easier to explore. The DRPS publishes this information on their PowerBI dashboard; this site reads that data and presents it in a more accessible format.
Some people use it to get a general sense of reported crime patterns in their neighbourhood or across the region. That's a reasonable use. What it is not for is described below, and that part matters.
Where does the data come from?
All data is sourced from the Durham Regional Police Service public PowerBI dashboard. DRPS makes this occurrence data publicly available; Durham Update reads, stores, and displays it. Data is ingested several times per day and reflects the current state of the DRPS dataset at the time of each update.
Intersection labels are derived from OpenStreetMap via Nominatim reverse geocoding of the coordinates published by DRPS. These labels are approximate and may not precisely reflect the address of the incident.
There is no special or privileged access to any DRPS system. No internal communications, restricted databases, or non-public information is involved.
⚠ For informational purposes only — not for operational use
Do not use this site to make any decision about safety, security, or emergency response.
The data shown here is delayed, aggregated, and imprecise. Incidents appear in the DRPS dataset some time after they are reported — which is itself some time after they occurred. Locations are approximate. Occurrences may be updated, reclassified, or removed from the source data after they first appear here.
This site gives you a statistical picture of reported incidents, not a real-time or complete picture of criminal activity. Many incidents are never reported. Many reported incidents do not result in charges. The data reflects police occurrence records, not convictions or confirmed crimes.
In any emergency, call 911. Do not check this site. Call 911.
Disclaimer
Durham Update is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Durham Regional Police Service, the Region of Durham, or any government agency or emergency service.
This is an independent, unofficial project. It has no operational relationship with DRPS and receives no data, funding, support, or approval from any government body. The agencies whose data appears here are not responsible for anything on this site.
Nothing on this site constitutes official information. For authoritative information about any incident, contact DRPS directly.
Data limitations
- Data reflects reported occurrences only — unreported incidents do not appear
- Occurrence dates may be missing, estimated, or differ from the actual date of the incident
- Locations are the nearest crossroad coordinate published by DRPS, not a precise address
- Intersection labels are approximate, derived from reverse geocoding
- Crime type classifications reflect DRPS dispatch categories, not legal determinations
- Data may be updated, corrected, or removed from the source at any time
- Coverage begins in January 2022; data before that date is not available
Data update frequency
The DRPS dataset is ingested automatically several times per day. New occurrences typically appear within a few hours of being published to the DRPS dashboard. Intersection geocoding runs immediately after each ingest for new coordinates.