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ONS · offence category: TOTAL POSSESSION OF WEAPONS OFFENCES (subtotal)

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): TOTAL POSSESSION OF WEAPONS OFFENCES (subtotal)

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

236,066offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for TOTAL POSSESSION OF WEAPONS OFFENCES (subtotal) totalled 236,066 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 25.6% (48,161) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. TOTAL POSSESSION OF WEAPONS OFFENCES
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 62347 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour020k40k60k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 36,379 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 39,021 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 40,605 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 39,711 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 38,937 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 37,079 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 35,662 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 28,758 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 26,327 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 23,688 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 19,910 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 20,623 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 21,890 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 25,835 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 31,316 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 39,059 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 46,493 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 47,685 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 44,703 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 49,024 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 57,648 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 58,325 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 57,746 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 62,347 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