policing_data

Policing jurisdictions from the 2023 list, or jurisdiction population series for 2008–2018. Separate vintages, no current-population claim or cross-vintage join. Aggregates only.

Cost: 1 unit of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• kind (population, jurisdictions, required)
• jurisdiction (string, optional): min length 1, max length 100
• year (integer, optional): min 2008, max 2023
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 100, default 50
• offset (integer, optional): min 0, max 4000, default 0

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/policing_data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"kind":"population"}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool policing_data with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"policing_data","arguments":{"kind":"population"}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.