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ONS · offence category: Shoplifting (subtotal)

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): Shoplifting (subtotal)

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

1,823,747offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for Shoplifting (subtotal) totalled 1,823,747 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 47.4% (586,673) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Shoplifting
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 507086 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0200k400k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 310,881 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 303,235 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 281,127 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 295,999 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 294,282 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 290,653 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 320,739 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 307,823 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 305,896 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 308,326 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 300,623 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 321,065 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 326,053 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 337,251 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 370,294 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 382,649 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 374,789 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 359,245 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 228,107 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 274,933 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 342,378 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 443,959 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 530,324 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 507,086 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