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ONS · offence category: 36 Kidnapping and false imprisonment

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 36 Kidnapping and false imprisonment

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

30,319offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 36 Kidnapping and false imprisonment totalled 30,319 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 28.7% (6,770) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Kidnapping and false imprisonment
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 8024 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour03k5k8k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 3,198 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 3,141 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 2,814 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 2,799 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 2,367 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 1,991 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 2,035 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 1,860 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 1,717 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 1,516 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 1,388 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 1,728 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 2,189 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 3,022 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 3,833 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 4,559 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 5,248 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 5,763 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 5,682 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 6,856 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 7,377 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 7,264 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 7,654 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 8,024 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