Polisen

What Polisen does

Brottsplatskartan (operating under the company name "Polisen" in the firm's records) is a private Swedish web platform that aggregates and visualizes real-time police incident data from the Swedish Police (Polismyndigheten) RSS feeds. The site presents events on an interactive map covering all 21 Swedish counties (län) and dedicated pages for 10 major cities including Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö, with supplementary features covering crime statistics, live traffic incidents from Trafikverket, public warning messages (VMA), a police station directory with distance calculations, and a browser-geolocation-based "nearby events" finder. The platform is built as a web-based service with no native mobile app, hosted on Hetzner servers in Helsinki, Finland, and exposes a Brottsplatser API for programmatic data access.

The business model is straightforward consumer-internet aggregation: the site is free to all users and monetized exclusively through Google AdSense advertising. Its primary customer segments are Swedish citizens interested in local crime and police activity and local communities searching for municipality- or region-specific incident data. The platform also has a minor content partnership with TextTV.nu for news integration. There is no disclosed paid product, no enterprise tier, no subscription pricing, and no disclosed management team, ownership structure, or funding history. The reported headcount of 117 employees is materially inconsistent with the operating model of a single ad-supported aggregator site and may reflect data attribution to the broader Swedish Police authority rather than the private website operator.

Strategically, the platform has expanded its vertical scope from pure crime mapping to a broader public-safety and traffic hub, and has launched an API to support developer and partner use of the data. The SEO-heavy, long-tail local-intent distribution model and direct RSS feed integration are the primary assets underpinning the business, but there is no evidence of proprietary AI/ML, no paid products, and no disclosed commercial scale beyond a single advertising revenue stream.

Name

Polisen

Legal name

Brottsplatskartan

Website

https://brottsplatskartan.se

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Brottsplatskartan is a free Swedish web platform that aggregates and visualizes real-time police incident data from Polisen RSS feeds on an interactive map across all 21 Swedish counties, monetized through Google AdSense advertising.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Crime Mapping & Public Safety Information

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

SIC

Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

News & Content Aggregation Portals (BPAMAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

POI, Local Listings & Business Directory Platforms (BPAMANAD), News & Current Affairs Aggregators (MPACAKAA)

Keywords

• Crime mapping platform
• Police incident tracking
• Real-time event aggregation
• Public safety data
• Crime statistics visualization

Headquarters

HQ city

Helsinki

HQ country

Finland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Advertising Revenue: The platform uses Google AdSense to display advertisements and generate revenue from website traffic.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Brottsplatskartan (operated under the Polisen brand) is a free web-based crime mapping platform that aggregates and displays real-time police events and incidents from Swedish Police (Polisen) RSS feeds across all 21 Swedish counties on an interactive map. The platform offers search and filtering by location, county, and city, supplemented by crime statistics, traffic event feeds, public warning messages (VMA), police station directory, and a nearby-events finder using browser geolocation. Revenue is generated through Google AdSense advertising displayed alongside the content.

Product overview

Brottsplatskartan is a unified platform that aggregates and visualizes real-time police incident data from Polisen (Swedish Police) RSS feeds across Sweden. The core product offers an interactive map showing crime locations and types, supplemented by crime statistics, live traffic events from Trafikverket, public warning messages (VMA), police station directories, and a nearby events finder. The platform organizes information by county (län), city, and event type, providing citizens with accessible local crime and emergency information.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Brottsplatskartan Crime Map Platform

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• TextTV.numinorGTM or Marketing PartnerContent partnership where news from Text TV is presented alongside police events. The site states 'Presenteras i samarbete med TextTV.nu'.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• TextTV.nu: Swedish online news aggregator presenting Text TV-style news. Already a content partner of Brottsplatskartan and comparable in being a Sweden-focused content/aggregation site.

Emerging players

• Citizen: Mobile app that pushes real-time safety and incident alerts to users in their vicinity with a location-based feed. Conceptual peer in real-time local-incident alerting though user-generated rather than official-RSS sourced.

Broad incumbents

• Nextdoor: Neighborhood social network that increasingly surfaces safety, crime, and incident reports at the hyperlocal level. Adjacent on hyperlocal safety information, with a much larger reach but broader neighborhood-news scope.
• Polisen.se (Polismyndigheten): The official Swedish Police Authority website and app, which publishes the same RSS feeds and incident data. Competes with Brottsplatskartan on trust and direct access to the source data.

Direct peers

• SpotCrime: US-based aggregator that pulls police blotter/incident reports from local agencies onto a map and listings UI. Same fundamental model of turning official RSS-style police data into a consumer-facing geo experience.
• Lokala brott (SVT Nyheter): Swedish public broadcaster's local crime coverage that surfaces police log events regionally. Competes for the same Swedish audience searching for local incident information but does so via editorial coverage rather than an interactive map.
• CrimeMapping.com (TriTech): US crime-mapping platform that aggregates official police agency data onto an interactive map with search by location. Closest functional analogue to Brottsplatskartan in a different market.
• LexisNexis Community Crime Map / TRACER: Crime-mapping service that consolidates agency-level police data into searchable local maps, used by municipalities in the US. Operationally close to a private aggregator powered by upstream police feeds.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/polisen

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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