UK street-level crime around a lat/lng (+optional month YYYY-MM, defaults latest, data lags ~2mo) from Home Office data.police.uk. Returns total count, by-category breakdown, and recent records (category, street, lat/lon, outcome). Free, Open Government Licence. Location-risk signal for property/...
AI agents call gov.uk-crime to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and fetches historical crime data indexed by location and time. It has no side effects—it does not create, modify, delete, or execute operations. The data returned is public government information already published under Open Government Licence. The use case (location-risk signal) is read-only analysis.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves and returns crime statistics and records from publicly available UK government data (data.police.uk) around specified coordinates.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
UK street-level crime around a lat/lng (+optional month YYYY-MM, defaults latest, data lags ~2mo) from Home Office data.police.uk. Returns total count, by-category breakdown, and recent records (category, street, lat/lon, outcome). Free, Open Government Licence. Location-risk signal for property/insurance/safety agents. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for gov.uk-crime: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mcp. Nothing to install.
gov.uk-crime is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the gov.uk-crime rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for gov.uk-crime. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
gov.uk-crime is provided by the MCP server (@2sio/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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