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ONS · offence category: 42 Theft of mail

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 42 Theft of mail

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

32,468offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 42 Theft of mail totalled 32,468 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 100.5% (16,276) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Theft of mail
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 8960 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour010k20k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 13,458 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 20,537 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 22,509 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 9,351 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 4,740 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 3,051 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 3,724 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 3,098 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 2,792 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 2,447 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 2,878 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 2,163 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 1,996 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 2,350 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 2,560 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 2,594 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 3,009 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 2,614 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 3,926 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 6,643 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 8,729 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 5,950 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 8,829 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 8,960 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