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Drug offences (police-recorded) by community safety partnership

The number of police-recorded drug offences in each Community Safety Partnership area (a local authority or group of local authorities) in England and Wales in the year ending March, including the 'Unassigned' rows for offences a force could not place in a partnership area.

latest 12 months to Year ending March 2026; 1 quarters summed · total 227,476 offences

Community Safety Partnership	Latest 12 months	Share	Previous 12 months	Change
Liverpool	7,818	3.4%	6,716	▲ 16.4%
Manchester	6,738	3%	5,226	▲ 28.9%
Birmingham	4,636	2%	4,131	▲ 12.2%
Leeds	3,401	1.5%	2,953	▲ 15.2%
Unassigned Kent	3,321	1.5%	2,615	▲ 27%
Bradford	3,050	1.3%	2,507	▲ 21.7%
Westminster	2,950	1.3%	2,250	▲ 31.1%
Brent	2,784	1.2%	1,950	▲ 42.8%
Tower Hamlets	2,695	1.2%	2,528	▲ 6.6%
Sheffield	2,577	1.1%	2,519	▲ 2.3%
Newham	2,576	1.1%	2,602	▼ 1%
Salford	2,428	1.1%	1,788	▲ 35.8%
Croydon	2,272	1%	2,292	▼ 0.9%
Hackney	2,171	1%	1,814	▲ 19.7%
Ealing	2,139	0.9%	1,290	▲ 65.8%
Islington	2,084	0.9%	1,286	▲ 62.1%
Barnet	2,063	0.9%	1,359	▲ 51.8%
Enfield	2,025	0.9%	1,715	▲ 18.1%
Southwark	1,982	0.9%	1,909	▲ 3.8%
Nottingham	1,966	0.9%	2,050	▼ 4.1%
Lambeth	1,937	0.9%	1,775	▲ 9.1%
Haringey	1,934	0.9%	1,652	▲ 17.1%
Leicester	1,890	0.8%	1,762	▲ 7.3%
Lewisham	1,839	0.8%	1,866	▼ 1.4%
Bolton	1,838	0.8%	1,349	▲ 36.2%
Greenwich	1,818	0.8%	1,752	▲ 3.8%
Derby	1,766	0.8%	1,166	▲ 51.5%
Bristol, City of	1,731	0.8%	1,158	▲ 49.5%
Waltham Forest	1,712	0.8%	1,523	▲ 12.4%
Kirklees	1,672	0.7%	1,427	▲ 17.2%
Sefton	1,643	0.7%	1,709	▼ 3.9%
Camden	1,617	0.7%	1,584	▲ 2.1%
Wirral	1,612	0.7%	1,577	▲ 2.2%
Hillingdon	1,601	0.7%	1,069	▲ 49.8%
Southampton	1,563	0.7%	1,509	▲ 3.6%
Barking and Dagenham	1,547	0.7%	1,195	▲ 29.5%
Rochdale	1,479	0.7%	1,019	▲ 45.1%
Hounslow	1,470	0.6%	1,112	▲ 32.2%
Brighton and Hove	1,440	0.6%	1,373	▲ 4.9%
Cheshire East	1,419	0.6%	912	▲ 55.6%
Wandsworth	1,410	0.6%	1,018	▲ 38.5%
St. Helens	1,393	0.6%	1,287	▲ 8.2%
Havering	1,387	0.6%	1,116	▲ 24.3%
Doncaster	1,380	0.6%	1,576	▼ 12.4%
Newcastle upon Tyne	1,354	0.6%	1,419	▼ 4.6%
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,339	0.6%	1,217	▲ 10%
Knowsley	1,333	0.6%	1,295	▲ 2.9%
Oldham	1,320	0.6%	1,190	▲ 10.9%
Bury	1,286	0.6%	965	▲ 33.3%
Wigan	1,275	0.6%	1,306	▼ 2.4%
Redbridge	1,274	0.6%	1,055	▲ 20.8%
Sandwell	1,258	0.6%	864	▲ 45.6%
Cardiff	1,240	0.5%	1,343	▼ 7.7%
Wakefield	1,228	0.5%	1,184	▲ 3.7%
Kensington and Chelsea	1,215	0.5%	927	▲ 31.1%
Bromley	1,207	0.5%	1,021	▲ 18.2%
County Durham	1,202	0.5%	1,107	▲ 8.6%
Tameside	1,178	0.5%	970	▲ 21.4%
Portsmouth	1,151	0.5%	1,220	▼ 5.7%
Milton Keynes	1,137	0.5%	1,050	▲ 8.3%
North Yorkshire	1,130	0.5%	1,000	▲ 13%
Middlesbrough	1,121	0.5%	1,129	▼ 0.7%
Stoke-on-Trent	1,120	0.5%	943	▲ 18.8%
Cheshire West and Chester	1,119	0.5%	916	▲ 22.2%
Peterborough	1,090	0.5%	610	▲ 78.7%
Stockport	1,038	0.5%	844	▲ 23%
Bexley	1,031	0.5%	830	▲ 24.2%
Luton	1,025	0.5%	747	▲ 37.2%
Coventry	1,007	0.4%	952	▲ 5.8%
Northampton	970	0.4%	1,261	▼ 23.1%
Harrow	959	0.4%	686	▲ 39.8%
Swansea	953	0.4%	825	▲ 15.5%
Kingston upon Hull, City of	950	0.4%	793	▲ 19.8%
Trafford	945	0.4%	835	▲ 13.2%
Southend-on-Sea	905	0.4%	880	▲ 2.8%
Warrington	904	0.4%	920	▼ 1.7%
Calderdale	900	0.4%	934	▼ 3.6%
North Hampshire	892	0.4%	768	▲ 16.1%
Stockton-on-Tees	884	0.4%	850	▲ 4%
Oxford	873	0.4%	959	▼ 9%
Thurrock	870	0.4%	629	▲ 38.3%
Plymouth	868	0.4%	1,341	▼ 35.3%
Basildon	858	0.4%	628	▲ 36.6%
Somerset	820	0.4%	709	▲ 15.7%
Thanet	809	0.4%	624	▲ 29.6%
Cornwall	792	0.3%	1,106	▼ 28.4%
Chelmsford	784	0.3%	623	▲ 25.8%
Barnsley	783	0.3%	659	▲ 18.8%
Wiltshire	782	0.3%	602	▲ 29.9%
Walsall	779	0.3%	705	▲ 10.5%
Halton	758	0.3%	742	▲ 2.2%
Blackpool	755	0.3%	684	▲ 10.4%
Rotherham	749	0.3%	830	▼ 9.8%
Cwm Taf	733	0.3%	726	▲ 1%
Merton	731	0.3%	667	▲ 9.6%
Crawley	724	0.3%	560	▲ 29.3%
Kingston upon Thames	724	0.3%	598	▲ 21.1%
Sunderland	712	0.3%	931	▼ 23.5%
Wycombe	710	0.3%	526	▲ 35%
Northumberland	708	0.3%	593	▲ 19.4%
Cambridge	703	0.3%	312	▲ 125.3%
Bedford	697	0.3%	473	▲ 47.4%
Bournemouth	682	0.3%	564	▲ 20.9%
Sutton	677	0.3%	592	▲ 14.4%
Wolverhampton	676	0.3%	615	▲ 9.9%
Reading	668	0.3%	598	▲ 11.7%
Newport	660	0.3%	717	▼ 7.9%
Slough	659	0.3%	544	▲ 21.1%
Western Suffolk	658	0.3%	665	▼ 1.1%
Norwich	649	0.3%	585	▲ 10.9%
Preston	647	0.3%	514	▲ 25.9%
Central Bedfordshire	643	0.3%	357	▲ 80.1%
South Nottinghamshire	625	0.3%	720	▼ 13.2%
Canterbury	607	0.3%	536	▲ 13.2%
Harlow	604	0.3%	526	▲ 14.8%
Swindon	599	0.3%	596	▲ 0.5%
Huntingdonshire	581	0.3%	394	▲ 47.5%
Dudley	573	0.3%	498	▲ 15.1%
Telford and Wrekin	573	0.3%	550	▲ 4.2%
North East Lincolnshire	569	0.3%	461	▲ 23.4%
Carmarthenshire	566	0.2%	560	▲ 1.1%
City of London	565	0.2%	576	▼ 1.9%
South Gloucestershire	562	0.2%	395	▲ 42.3%
Carlisle	559	0.2%	526	▲ 6.3%
Richmond upon Thames	559	0.2%	595	▼ 6.1%
Windsor and Maidenhead	554	0.2%	632	▼ 12.3%
Colchester	543	0.2%	571	▼ 4.9%
North Tyneside	530	0.2%	430	▲ 23.3%
Caerphilly	529	0.2%	480	▲ 10.2%
City of York	528	0.2%	379	▲ 39.3%
Gateshead	518	0.2%	520	▼ 0.4%
Aylesbury Vale	517	0.2%	387	▲ 33.6%
Blackburn with Darwen	515	0.2%	411	▲ 25.3%
Eastbourne	513	0.2%	333	▲ 54.1%
Redcar and Cleveland	506	0.2%	515	▼ 1.7%
Isle of Wight	505	0.2%	410	▲ 23.2%
Unassigned Metropolitan police	502	0.2%	830	▼ 39.5%
Folkestone and Hythe	497	0.2%	359	▲ 38.4%
Torbay	497	0.2%	725	▼ 31.4%
Epping Forest	495	0.2%	459	▲ 7.8%
Unassigned Humberside	495	0.2%	454	▲ 9%
Winchester	493	0.2%	375	▲ 31.5%
Hartlepool	492	0.2%	479	▲ 2.7%
North Worcestershire	489	0.2%	423	▲ 15.6%
Dorset	482	0.2%	474	▲ 1.7%
Shropshire	474	0.2%	385	▲ 23.1%
Hertsmere	464	0.2%	309	▲ 50.2%
South Worcester	463	0.2%	462	▲ 0.2%
Kettering	448	0.2%	467	▼ 4.1%
North Lincolnshire	442	0.2%	377	▲ 17.2%
Dartford and Gravesham	438	0.2%	573	▼ 23.6%
Wrexham	438	0.2%	296	▲ 48%
Gloucester	435	0.2%	462	▼ 5.8%
Solihull	430	0.2%	392	▲ 9.7%
Reigate and Banstead	427	0.2%	434	▼ 1.6%
East Riding of Yorkshire	417	0.2%	370	▲ 12.7%
Mansfield	417	0.2%	390	▲ 6.9%
Spelthorne	416	0.2%	364	▲ 14.3%
Lancaster	415	0.2%	337	▲ 23.1%
Runnymede	413	0.2%	483	▼ 14.5%
Braintree	410	0.2%	405	▲ 1.2%
Watford	410	0.2%	266	▲ 54.1%
Ipswich	409	0.2%	440	▼ 7%
Swale	408	0.2%	347	▲ 17.6%
Stafford	394	0.2%	311	▲ 26.7%
Guildford	392	0.2%	382	▲ 2.6%
South Warwickshire	392	0.2%	454	▼ 13.7%
Ashford	388	0.2%	307	▲ 26.4%
Exeter	387	0.2%	514	▼ 24.7%
West Berkshire	384	0.2%	503	▼ 23.7%
Bridgend	382	0.2%	372	▲ 2.7%
Dover	382	0.2%	352	▲ 8.5%
Dacorum	380	0.2%	234	▲ 62.4%
North Somerset	378	0.2%	281	▲ 34.5%
Conwy	376	0.2%	208	▲ 80.8%
Elmbridge	376	0.2%	316	▲ 19%
Gwynedd	376	0.2%	280	▲ 34.3%
East Hertfordshire	373	0.2%	218	▲ 71.1%
Cherwell	370	0.2%	427	▼ 13.3%
Hastings	369	0.2%	254	▲ 45.3%
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	368	0.2%	495	▼ 25.7%
South Tyneside	367	0.2%	436	▼ 15.8%
Welwyn Hatfield	366	0.2%	274	▲ 33.6%
Chesterfield	361	0.2%	249	▲ 45%
Denbighshire	361	0.2%	333	▲ 8.4%
Powys	352	0.2%	326	▲ 8%
Wellingborough	352	0.2%	362	▼ 2.8%
East Staffordshire	351	0.2%	255	▲ 37.6%
Brentwood	349	0.2%	232	▲ 50.4%
Flintshire	348	0.2%	174	▲ 100%
Arun	347	0.2%	314	▲ 10.5%
Stevenage	346	0.2%	233	▲ 48.5%
Tendring	345	0.2%	336	▲ 2.7%
Pembrokeshire	344	0.2%	367	▼ 6.3%
Burnley	338	0.1%	318	▲ 6.3%
Great Yarmouth	335	0.1%	357	▼ 6.2%
Newcastle-under-Lyme	333	0.1%	264	▲ 26.1%
Ashfield	328	0.1%	320	▲ 2.5%
Worthing	327	0.1%	317	▲ 3.2%
Amber Valley	325	0.1%	245	▲ 32.7%
Herefordshire, County of	323	0.1%	314	▲ 2.9%
South Cambridgeshire	320	0.1%	136	▲ 135.3%
Vale of White Horse	316	0.1%	341	▼ 7.3%
Cannock Chase	305	0.1%	232	▲ 31.5%
St Albans	305	0.1%	176	▲ 73.3%
South Devon and Dartmoor	303	0.1%	463	▼ 34.6%
Havant	293	0.1%	323	▼ 9.3%
Torfaen	293	0.1%	236	▲ 24.2%
Corby	289	0.1%	299	▼ 3.3%
Test Valley	289	0.1%	318	▼ 9.1%
Neath Port Talbot	287	0.1%	355	▼ 19.2%
Sevenoaks	285	0.1%	275	▲ 3.6%
Allerdale	277	0.1%	282	▼ 1.8%
Daventry and South Northamptonshire	277	0.1%	284	▼ 2.5%
Nuneaton and Bedworth	274	0.1%	321	▼ 14.6%
Charnwood	273	0.1%	250	▲ 9.2%
Wyre	273	0.1%	240	▲ 13.8%
Bassetlaw	270	0.1%	269	▲ 0.4%
Bracknell Forest	270	0.1%	254	▲ 6.3%
Lincoln	268	0.1%	306	▼ 12.4%
South Lakeland	268	0.1%	347	▼ 22.8%
Bath and North East Somerset	266	0.1%	275	▼ 3.3%
East and Mid Devon	264	0.1%	340	▼ 22.4%
Erewash	264	0.1%	173	▲ 52.6%
Epsom and Ewell	263	0.1%	182	▲ 44.5%
Gosport	261	0.1%	226	▲ 15.5%
Barrow-In-Furness	259	0.1%	300	▼ 13.7%
Breckland	259	0.1%	304	▼ 14.8%
Broxbourne	259	0.1%	205	▲ 26.3%
Ceredigion	258	0.1%	374	▼ 31%
South Derbyshire	257	0.1%	213	▲ 20.7%
Wokingham	256	0.1%	261	▼ 1.9%
Fenland	254	0.1%	204	▲ 24.5%
East Hampshire	252	0.1%	168	▲ 50%
Eden	252	0.1%	224	▲ 12.5%
Unassigned Sussex	248	0.1%	410	▼ 39.5%
North Devon	247	0.1%	361	▼ 31.6%
Eastleigh	243	0.1%	236	▲ 3%
Fareham	243	0.1%	173	▲ 40.5%
Chorley	240	0.1%	160	▲ 50%
Poole	234	0.1%	214	▲ 9.3%
South Staffordshire	231	0.1%	207	▲ 11.6%
Unassigned Hampshire	227	0.1%	140	▲ 62.1%
Hyndburn	222	0.1%	227	▼ 2.2%
New Forest	222	0.1%	266	▼ 16.5%
North Hertfordshire	221	0.1%	173	▲ 27.7%
Rugby	221	0.1%	295	▼ 25.1%
Mole Valley	218	0.1%	128	▲ 70.3%
East Lindsey	212	0.1%	252	▼ 15.9%
Vale of Glamorgan	210	0.1%	272	▼ 22.8%
Woking	210	0.1%	232	▼ 9.5%
Lewes	209	0.1%	137	▲ 52.6%
Tandridge	208	0.1%	299	▼ 30.4%
South Oxfordshire	207	0.1%	251	▼ 17.5%
Waveney	207	0.1%	210	▼ 1.4%
Darlington	203	0.1%	346	▼ 41.3%
Uttlesford	200	0.1%	181	▲ 10.5%
Cheltenham	197	0.1%	252	▼ 21.8%
Pendle	197	0.1%	154	▲ 27.9%
Three Rivers	196	0.1%	112	▲ 75%
West Lancashire	195	0.1%	201	▼ 3%
Castle Point	192	0.1%	153	▲ 25.5%
Chichester	190	0.1%	190	→ 0%
Mid Sussex	187	0.1%	188	▼ 0.5%
Newark and Sherwood	186	0.1%	179	▲ 3.9%
South Bucks	182	0.1%	138	▲ 31.9%
West Oxfordshire	179	0.1%	169	▲ 5.9%
Horsham	177	0.1%	196	▼ 9.7%
Copeland	175	0.1%	184	▼ 4.9%
South Kesteven	175	0.1%	188	▼ 6.9%
Stroud	175	0.1%	146	▲ 19.9%
Rochford	174	0.1%	132	▲ 31.8%
Blaenau Gwent	173	0.1%	195	▼ 11.3%
Bolsover	173	0.1%	139	▲ 24.5%
Tamworth	171	0.1%	176	▼ 2.8%
Lichfield	169	0.1%	127	▲ 33.1%
Monmouthshire	168	0.1%	180	▼ 6.7%
Boston	166	0.1%	204	▼ 18.6%
East Northamptonshire	166	0.1%	176	▼ 5.7%
High Peak	165	0.1%	122	▲ 35.2%
Maldon	159	0.1%	137	▲ 16.1%
South Ribble	158	0.1%	128	▲ 23.4%
North East Derbyshire	155	0.1%	101	▲ 53.5%
Surrey Heath	155	0.1%	133	▲ 16.5%
Hinckley and Bosworth	154	0.1%	179	▼ 14%
Isle of Anglesey	154	0.1%	189	▼ 18.5%
Suffolk Coastal	154	0.1%	177	▼ 13%
South Norfolk	150	0.1%	138	▲ 8.7%
Chiltern	149	0.1%	103	▲ 44.7%
Wealden	142	0.1%	129	▲ 10.1%
Staffordshire Moorlands	139	0.1%	90	▲ 54.4%
North West Leicestershire	135	0.1%	139	▼ 2.9%
Unassigned Dyfed-Powys	135	0.1%	151	▼ 10.6%
Waverley	131	0.1%	110	▲ 19.1%
Unassigned Essex	130	0.1%	115	▲ 13%
West Lindsey	123	0.1%	140	▼ 12.1%
Rossendale	118	0.1%	152	▼ 22.4%
Unassigned Lancashire	118	0.1%	104	▲ 13.5%
Oadby and Wigston	117	0.1%	68	▲ 72.1%
Unassigned West Midlands	117	0.1%	108	▲ 8.3%
Derbyshire Dales	116	0.1%	103	▲ 12.6%
North Norfolk	113	0%	83	▲ 36.1%
Blaby	112	0%	99	▲ 13.1%
Unassigned Leicestershire	112	0%	97	▲ 15.5%
Rother	110	0%	115	▼ 4.3%
South Holland	110	0%	125	▼ 12%
North Kesteven	107	0%	109	▼ 1.8%
Fylde	106	0%	87	▲ 21.8%
Unassigned Avon and Somerset	106	0%	81	▲ 30.9%
Unassigned South Yorkshire	105	0%	91	▲ 15.4%
Harborough	103	0%	80	▲ 28.7%
Broadland	100	0%	120	▼ 16.7%
Tewkesbury	100	0%	106	▼ 5.7%
East Cambridgeshire	95	0%	81	▲ 17.3%
Adur	94	0%	115	▼ 18.3%
Forest of Dean	94	0%	84	▲ 11.9%
Unassigned Hertfordshire	90	0%	63	▲ 42.9%
Unassigned Bedfordshire	83	0%	99	▼ 16.2%
Unassigned Northumbria	83	0%	22	▲ 277.3%
Manchester Airport	82	0%	57	▲ 43.9%
Melton	80	0%	93	▼ 14%
North Warwickshire	80	0%	88	▼ 9.1%
Unassigned Staffordshire	78	0%	53	▲ 47.2%
Unassigned South Wales	72	0%	74	▼ 2.7%
Unassigned Nottinghamshire	70	0%	66	▲ 6.1%
Unassigned Derbyshire	68	0%	470	▼ 85.5%
Cotswold	65	0%	87	▼ 25.3%
Unassigned Thames Valley	60	0%	41	▲ 46.3%
Ribble Valley	53	0%	56	▼ 5.4%
Unassigned Cambridgeshire	48	0%	27	▲ 77.8%
Rutland	45	0%	52	▼ 13.5%
Unassigned Norfolk	38	0%	53	▼ 28.3%
Unassigned Suffolk	23	0%	24	▼ 4.2%
Unassigned Dorset	22	0%	13	▲ 69.2%
Unassigned Gloucestershire	22	0%	26	▼ 15.4%
Unassigned Wiltshire	21	0%	16	▲ 31.3%
Unassigned West Mercia	19	0%	17	▲ 11.8%
Unassigned Merseyside	15	0%	8	▲ 87.5%
Unassigned North Yorkshire	14	0%	10	▲ 40%
Unassigned Cheshire	13	0%	13	→ 0%
Unassigned Northamptonshire	13	0%	20	▼ 35%
Unassigned Warwickshire	13	0%	8	▲ 62.5%
Unassigned Durham	8	0%	8	→ 0%
Medway	5	0%	171	▼ 97.1%
Isles of Scilly	3	0%	6	▼ 50%
Unassigned Cumbria	3	0%	130	▼ 97.7%
Unassigned Lincolnshire	3	0%	11	▼ 72.7%
Maidstone	1	0%	102	▼ 99%
Unassigned Greater Manchester	1	0%	12	▼ 91.7%
Tonbridge and Malling	0	0%	43	▼ 100%
Tunbridge Wells	0	0%	46	▼ 100%
Unassigned Cleveland	0	0%	5	▼ 100%
Unassigned Devon and Cornwall	0	0%	2	▼ 100%
Unassigned Gwent	0	0%	0	—
Unassigned North Wales	0	0%	0	—
Unassigned West Yorkshire	0	0%	0	—
unassigned Surrey	0	0%	—	—

Source

Dataset: Police force area data tables
Rows: ; values are the sum of the published rows for each community safety partnership and period.
Caveat: Fraud (excluded from all sub-national breakdowns), force-level totals (see the police force area breakdown), or offences with no location recorded at all.
Parent metric: Drug offences (police-recorded)
API: /api/metrics/prc_drug_offences_by_csp/vintages