WatchMyStreet
A calm, plain-language AI digest for UK residents and parents that pulls local police press releases, council crime stats and community reports within a 1-mile radius and delivers a weekly summary plus opt-in incident alerts — no sensationalism, no doomscrolling, every claim linked to its source.
UK residents and parents who want factual awareness of incidents near home, school or commute without tabloid churn
- Plain-English weekly digest within a 1-mile radius, e.g. '3 vehicle crimes, 1 dispersal in town centre, no threat to schools'
- Opt-in alerts for specific streets or incident types such as tool theft or anti-social behaviour
- School-route safety check for parents that flags incidents along a chosen walk
- Source links to original police and council releases for every claim
Google Trends spikes around incidents like the High Wycombe armed-policing event show residents want facts fast; data.police.uk's open APIs finally make a calm, structured digest buildable.
200+ searches on a single High Wycombe incident plus consistent traffic to UK local-news crime pages show real local concern.OWL - Online Watch Link - Neighbourhood Watch - Home ↗
data.police.uk exposes raw data but no consumer-friendly digest layer is widely adopted.OWL - Online Watch Link - Neighbourhood Watch - Home ↗
Direct consumer payment is hard; a freemium B2B angle to councils or insurers is more realistic.OWL - Online Watch Link - Neighbourhood Watch - Home ↗
Local safety awareness is permanent, though usage spikes with news cycles.
data.police.uk APIs plus council open data plus LLM summarization are mature building blocks.