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Nearest geocoded police premises

nearby_police_stations12 fields12 of these fields open in the demo
Source
BRREG, Kartverket and reviewed Politiet premises matches
Geography
Around the address
Reported stale after
30 days
Access
Requires an API key granted this section
Contract version
2
In packages
prevention_context, civil_protection

What this does not say

Quoted verbatim from the section’s warnings field, exactly as the API returns it. They are not translated: a translation would show something other than what your response actually contains.

  • Ten nearest known premises by straight-line UTM33 distance; incomplete coverage, no opening-hours or emergency response guarantee. Most matches use registered names, not verified public services. Reviewed identity/address exceptions include Grønland (Oslo district office), checked against Politiet on 2026-09-27; fetched_at is the register retrieval time, not a renewed operational verification.
  • Routes follow the car profile, from the address to the feature; ranking remains straight-line. Static modelled travel time excludes live traffic and emergency response. Road snapping is limited to 250 m at each end. Ferries may be included without timetable/wait guarantees. Graph source date is unverified unless supplied. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
  • walk_route and cycle_route follow OSRM's foot and bicycle profiles on the same OpenStreetMap data: paths and stairs allowed on foot, road rules for bicycles; modelled times at profile default speeds, not measured.

Fields

2 of 12 fields are value fields — the ones that decide whether a record actually says anything. The rest are context: identifiers, codes and timestamps. Fields marked “open” return values to anonymous callers; the rest require a key.

FieldTypeRoleDemo
idinteger | nullcontextopen
org_nrstring | nullcontextopen
station_namestring | nullvalueopen
addressstring | nullcontextopen
latnumber | nullcontextopen
lonnumber | nullcontextopen
geocode_statusstring | nullcontextopen
straight_line_distance_mnumber | null (m)valueopen
fetched_atstring | nullcontextopen
routeobjectcontextopen
walk_routeobjectcontextopen
cycle_routeobjectcontextopen

Fetch this section

curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643?include=nearby_police_stations"

# paginated, one section at a time
curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643/sections/nearby_police_stations?limit=25"

Try it now

This is a real call against the public demo, from here. What appears below is what the API returned — not a sample.