Area-IQ operational brief
Leeds
A worked example for an area security assessment and client briefing. Every displayed figure is sourced, bounded and publication-gated; no synthetic risk score is used.
Assessment task
Orient a security team before a client visit to Leeds.
Decision supported
Identify area-level incident patterns and environmental constraints that need further checking before the team confirms its plan.
Geographic scope
Leeds local-authority baseline, with a separate flood screening at the published postcode centroid. This is not an exact-site assessment.
Required follow-up
Validate the venue, access, current conditions and client-specific threat picture before tasking. Gaps remain visible rather than being converted into a score.
12-month total
106,916
Audited incidents · area baseline
Monthly average
8,910
Complete 12-month evidence window
Latest month
9,227
Jun 2026
Monthly movement
2.0% lower
Change in recorded activity
Operating environment
Recorded incident pattern
The highest recorded month was Jul 2025 at 9,994 incidents; the lowest was Feb 2026 at 7,650.
Threat context
Largest recorded categories
- Violent Crime38.5%
41,128 incidents
- Shoplifting9.4%
10,069 incidents
- Anti Social Behaviour8.9%
9,531 incidents
- Public Order7.6%
8,132 incidents
- Criminal Damage Arson6.8%
7,304 incidents
- Other Theft6.8%
7,218 incidents
Area and site context
Environmental screening near LS1 1UR
Point checked
LS1 1UR
Published postcode centroid, not an exact site boundary
At the centroid
Outside Zones 2 and 3
No river-or-sea Flood Zone 2 or 3 feature intersected the checked point
Nearby context
Zones 2 and 3 present
Both mapped zone types occur in the surrounding 1 km map search
Operational use
The checked point is outside the mapped river-or-sea zones, but nearby mapped flood areas could affect local access and contingency planning. Recheck the exact site and current conditions before deployment.
Provenance and limits
Environment Agency Flood Zones 2 and 3, dataset revision 20 May 2026; checked 8 September 2026. This screening is not a live warning, insurance assessment or surface-water result.
Briefing snapshot
What an operations team can use now
Baseline
Twelve audited months
Establish the area-wide incident pattern before exact-site checks.
Constraint
Nearby flood features
Flag access and diversion questions for the advance; do not infer exact-site exposure.
Analyst status
Publication checks passed
Suitable as a sourced planning input, with explicit limitations and no guessed score.
Operational interpretation
Planning considerations
- The latest month was 2.0% lower than the preceding month.
- Violent Crime was the largest recorded category, representing 38.5% of the 12-month total.
- This is an LAD-wide baseline, not a street-level threat assessment. Combine it with exact-site validation, current alerts, local checks and client-specific intelligence before tasking.
Confidence and provenance
Why this can be published
- Geography
- Leeds LAD · E08000035
- Source
- Police.uk street-level crime open data
- Publication gate
- Exact 12-month coverage, unique periods, reconciled category totals and valid audit metadata
- Latest source audit
- 2 September 2026
Briefing status and limitations
- This worked example is fixed to July 2025–June 2026 and is not a live operational threat assessment.
- Police.uk map locations are anonymised and may be moved to a nearby point.
- Recorded crime does not include incidents that were not reported or recorded.
- This sample does not predict an individual's safety, replace an advance, or create a synthetic risk score.
- The flood screening uses a postcode centroid and covers mapped river-and-sea Zones 2 and 3 only; it is not a live disruption alert.
- Partner briefs are offered only where the requested evidence can pass the same publication checks.
Founding pilot
Bring an area and a decision to support.
We will confirm available coverage, required sources and briefing format before the pilot.