Data cluster

Thailand Crime, Safety, Police, Fire, and Rescue APIs.

Police access, tourist-police help, crime statistics, road accidents, fire and rescue, ambulance and 1669, disaster alerts, wildfire, protest risk, and emergency POI layers for Thailand safety intelligence.

20 sources Updated 2026-05-11 Download JSON

Best use for travel intelligence

For travel decisions, safety data is strongest when it separates police access, tourist help, road crashes, fire and rescue, ambulance systems, disaster alerts, protest context, and slower crime baselines instead of pretending one number means 'safe' or 'unsafe'.

What this changes for travelers

  • Police access: Shows where formal help exists and which public hotline or station type a traveler should actually use.
  • Tourist help: Makes 1155, multilingual support, and tourist-focused reporting easier to use in stressful moments.
  • Road safety: Adds the strongest public operational-risk layer for drivers, riders, and intercity travel.
  • Disaster and wildfire: Explains why a place can feel unsafe because of flood, wildfire, hotspot, or active warning pressure rather than crime alone.
  • Protest and event context: Adds clearly labeled external caution when demonstrations or security incidents affect movement or comfort.

Best sources to start with

  • Best official police and station backbone: Royal Thai Police open data plus GDC police-station datasets for public-service, hotline, station, and police-access context.
  • Best traveler-help layer: Tourist Police Bureau and the Thailand Tourist Police app for 1155, multilingual support, and tourist-specific reporting or assistance channels.
  • Best current operational safety layer: ThaiRSC, PRS Open Data police road accidents, and MOT road-accident datasets for road crashes, deaths, injuries, and route-risk context.
  • Best fire, ambulance, and disaster layer: NIEMS 1669 ITEMS for EMS system context, BMA fire station data for Bangkok station access, and DDPM plus GISTDA or NASA FIRMS for disaster and fire overlays.
  • Best protest and external event layer: ACLED Thailand and GDELT Thailand for labeled protest, violence, or security-event context, with UNODC and World Bank for slower international crime baselines.
  • Best developer starting point: Model agency, station, crime stat, road crash, fire-rescue event, EMS summary, safety alert, and source-confidence separately.
Official / agency sources

7 of 20 sources look official or agency-backed.

API/feed candidates

12 sources expose API, feed, CKAN/DataStore, JSON, XML, or similar machine-readable access.

Near-real-time signals

7 sources have live, hourly, event-driven, warning, or frequent update language.

Developer note

Keep police stations, aggregated crime statistics, road-crash events, EMS summaries, disaster alerts, and protest or news signals in separate tables so the page can say exactly what kind of safety evidence it is using.

Last checked and source confidence

Last checked: 2026-05-11.

Source confidence: This cluster is strongest when several sources describe the same traveler problem from different angles: official context, machine-readable feeds, and slower fallback documentation.

Geospatial and satellite

DNP wildfire data

Department of National Parks wildfire and hotspot geospatial layer with fire-related overlays and protected-area wildfire context. Useful for smoke, forest-fire, and conservation-area safety overlays.

Public geospatial dashboard and hotspot layers
Geospatial and satellite

OSM Thailand emergency POI

Crowdsourced geospatial enrichment for police stations, fire stations, ambulance stations, rescue stations, AEDs, and other emergency-related POIs. Useful for map context, not official operational status.

OSM/Overpass API and OSM extracts
Humanitarian and international baselines

UNODC crime and homicide statistics

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime data portal for homicide, crime, criminal-justice, prison, and violence baselines. Useful for Thailand international comparison and long-run homicide context, not local realtime incident monitoring.

Public data portal and downloadable statistical views
Humanitarian and international baselines

World Bank Data API Thailand

Country indicators for Thailand across World Bank datasets.

API
Justice and legal access

GDC police-station datasets

Provincial and national catalog surfaces for police-station counts, names, coordinates, addresses, phones, and jurisdiction context. Coverage and schema vary by province, so harmonization is required.

Government Data Catalog and provincial CKAN datasets with CSV/XLSX/API-style resources where exposed
Justice and legal access

Police Online Open Data

Police Data Catalog with cybercrime and online-crime statistics such as case counts, victims, age, sex, occupation, unit, and damage value. Strong for public cybercrime statistics, not a complete national incident or dispatch feed.

CKAN-style data catalog, API docs, and XLSX-heavy downloadable resources
Justice and legal access

Royal Thai Police open data

Royal Thai Police public disclosure, citizen-service, station-directory, complaint, hotline, and integrity-transparency layer. Useful as the national police public-service and disclosure backbone, not a live incident feed.

Official public disclosure and citizen-service pages
Justice and legal access

Royal Thai Police station directory and provincial datasets

Police station names, district/subdistrict, address, coordinates, and emergency contact fields where provincial datasets expose Data API/JSON/CSV resources. Use as public legal incident and crime-reporting access points.

Official station directory plus provincial GDC/CKAN datasets where exposed
Justice and legal access

Tourist Police Bureau

Official tourist-police public layer for hotline 1155, station contacts, multilingual assistance context, tourist advisories, and public help channels. Operational incident and dispatch data remain private.

Official public website, station pages, hotline, and advisories
Labour, health, and education

NIEMS 1669 ITEMS

National Institute for Emergency Medicine public layer covering hotline 1669, ITEMS 4.0, EMS data-warehouse references, ambulance standards, and emergency-medical operations context. Live patient dispatch data is restricted.

Official public portal with operational systems, manuals, and service pages; dispatch systems themselves are role-gated
Law, politics, and civic

ACLED Thailand

Political violence, demonstrations, protest, and conflict-event data.

API/export
Law, politics, and civic

BMA fire station data

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration fire-station and substation location dataset for Bangkok fire and rescue access context. Useful for station master, district coverage, and city emergency-access mapping, not live dispatch or readiness.

Bangkok open-data dataset with CSV resource, map view, and table view
News and government information

GDELT Thailand

Global event/news graph filterable to Thailand.

API/bulk
Tourism and travel

Thailand Tourist Police app

Public app-information layer for the Thailand Tourist Police application, including emergency assistance, translation, location sharing, alerts, and app-based tourist support context. App-side operational data is not a public bulk API.

Official public app-information page
Transport

MOT road accident datasets

Road-accident datasets on Ministry of Transport road networks for safety and destination-risk context. Useful for explaining why some rental routes deserve stronger caution.

MOT catalog dataset with CSV/XLSX-style resources and metadata where exposed
Transport

PRS Open Data police road accidents

Police Road Safety system summary surface used by the Royal Thai Police for road-accident analysis, risk points, and enforcement planning. Useful as a police road-safety layer, not a full open dispatch or case-level feed.

Official public summary dashboard; broader operational data is internal or partner-facing
Transport

ThaiRSC road accident center

Road Safety Collaboration dashboard for road-accident injury and death context. Useful as a road-risk layer for vehicle-rental guidance, especially motorcycles and long drives.

Public dashboard and related public resources
Weather, environment, and disasters

DDPM disaster data catalog

Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation public data-catalog layer for disaster data, warning data, assistance data, resources, and broader disaster-management datasets.

Official DDPM data catalog and linked CKAN-style dataset resources
Weather, environment, and disasters

GISTDA disaster fire

GISTDA fire and disaster platform for hotspot, fire, burned-area, and related geospatial context. Useful for wildfire and public-safety risk overlays, not for live fire-engine dispatch.

Public disaster platform dashboard and geospatial fire layers
Weather, environment, and disasters

NASA FIRMS

MODIS/VIIRS fire and thermal anomaly data filterable to Thailand.

API, CSV, WMS