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ONS · offence category: 41 Theft by an employee

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 41 Theft by an employee

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

23,004offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 41 Theft by an employee totalled 23,004 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 22.2% (6,569) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Theft by an employee
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 4846 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour05k10k15k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 17,530 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 17,700 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 17,251 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 17,048 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 16,323 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 15,864 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 15,467 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 13,169 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 12,141 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 11,589 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 10,446 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 10,320 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 10,755 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 10,756 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 10,441 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 10,505 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 9,876 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 8,939 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 5,131 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 5,627 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 6,547 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 6,239 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 5,372 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 4,846 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