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ONS · offence category: 81 Other firearms, knives and offensive weapon offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 81 Other firearms, knives and offensive weapon offences

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

8,095offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 81 Other firearms, knives and offensive weapon offences totalled 8,095 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 14.2% (1,338) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Other firearms, knives and offensive weapon offences [note 50]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 2276 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour02k4k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 3,522 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 3,322 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 4,210 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 4,106 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 4,239 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 4,560 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 293 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 253 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 254 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 229 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 160 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 237 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 191 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 251 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 292 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 969 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 1,818 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 2,308 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 3,303 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 2,004 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 1,986 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 2,722 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 1,111 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 2,276 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