ONS · offence category: 10C Possession of other weapons

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 10C Possession of other weapons

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

89,402offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 10C Possession of other weapons totalled 89,402 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 45.1% (27,809) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Possession of other weapons [note 48]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
  5. 24969 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 2026LabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour010k20k2010201520202025Year ending March 2009: 14,944 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 11,950 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 10,564 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 9,138 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 7,274 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 7,328 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 7,474 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 9,127 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 10,949 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 13,444 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 15,584 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 15,451 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 14,455 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 16,103 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 20,650 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 21,560 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 22,223 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 24,969 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