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ONS · offence category: 10B Possession of firearms offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 10B Possession of firearms offences

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

13,638offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 10B Possession of firearms offences totalled 13,638 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 11.1% (1,700) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Possession of firearms offences [note 49]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 3211 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2009 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2009 to Year ending March 2026LabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour02k4k2010201520202025Year ending March 2009: 4,460 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 4,070 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 3,650 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 3,402 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 3,052 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 2,929 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 3,051 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 3,283 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 3,536 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 3,820 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 4,174 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 4,061 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 3,662 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 3,441 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 3,563 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 3,623 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 3,241 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 3,211 offences · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The number of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for every offence and offence group in the ONS appendix table, for each year ending March since 2003. Coded rows are individual Home Office offence codes; rows marked (subtotal) are the groups the ONS prints without a code.

Offences whose code was retired or introduced part way through the series (shown as unavailable for those years), or fraud reported to Action Fraud and Report Fraud for the latest year.

Source

Dataset
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 9e4a930ec090b4b4…
All values
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) by offence category