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The police log (Politiet)

Name: The police log (Politiet)
License: NLOD

The Norwegian police's public event log exposed via a public BFF. Current and recent police events with district, category (traffic, public order, law and order and more), municipality and event text. No authentication — full transparency of public police work. Updated continuously.

50K rows

Data volume

Real time

Updates

MCP tools

Example response — /api/connectors/politiloggen/recent

{
  "data": "..."
}

MCP integration

Available MCP tools

politiloggen.districts.list

politiloggen.recent

politiloggen.recent.by_district

Configuration for Claude Desktop / Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "politiloggen": {
      "url": "https://data.ketl.no/mcp/politiloggen",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer $KETL_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Analysis apps that use this source

Ready-made tools built on The police log (Politiet) data. Use them directly in the browser, or wire the same data into your own analysis via the API below.

Police log

Live feed from the Norwegian police's public log — the latest Norwegian police events per district with category, municipality and incident text.

API endpoints

GET

/recent

Siste hendelser. Uten filtre returneres nyeste 20.

take optional: Antall hendelser. Verdi utenfor 1–100 gir 400. take=20
skip optional: Offset. Verdi utenfor 0–10000 gir 400. skip=0
district optional: Filtrer på politidistrikt (1–64 tegn, politiets eget navn). district=Oslo
category optional: Filtrer på hendelseskategori (1–64 tegn, politiets eget navn). category=Trafikk

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/politiloggen/recent
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/politiloggen/recent"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/health

Connector-helsestatus

deep optional: Sett `deep=1` for å få med det fulle probe-objektet (`deepProbe`). Enhver annen verdi gir samme svar som uten parameteren — verdimengden er IKKE lukket, så ruta avviser ingenting (MÅLT 2026-08-30). deep=1

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/politiloggen/health
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/politiloggen/health"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

Access and pricing

The police log (Politiet) is openly available — create an account to get started.

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