Other selected offences include rape, attempted murder, homicide and sexual assault. Download this chart Figure 7: Rising trend in crimes involving knives or sharp instruments driven by increase in robberies Image.
Figures for offences involving knives or sharp instruments continue to exclude Greater Manchester Police GMP because of issues with their data supply following the implementation of new force IT systems. Police recorded crime provides a better measure of higher-harm but less common types of violence than the Crime Survey for England and Wales CSEW , such as those involving a knife or sharp instrument.
Offences involving knives or sharp instruments have been experiencing a rising trend since the year ending March , although in recent years the rate of increase has slowed. The change in the number of offences involving knives or sharp instruments in the latest year varied by police force area. For example, looking at the three areas with the highest rate per , population:. The highest rate was also seen in London, with offences per , population.
This compared with an England and Wales average of 82 offences per , population. Other sources of data can help to provide different insights into offences involving knives or sharp instruments. For example, rises in the number of offences involving a knife or sharp instrument can also be seen in the knife and offensive weapon sentencing for England and Wales publication by the Ministry of Justice.
While these figures cover a different period to those presented in this bulletin, they show that, in the year ending September , the criminal justice system formally dealt with the highest number of knife and offensive weapon offences since Trends in this offence have been influenced by increases in targeted police action, such as the recent rise in stop and searches 4 , which typically follow rises in offences involving knives or sharp instruments.
Data related to stop and searches can be found in the Home Office publication Police powers and procedures. Although for a different time period, the latest available provisional admissions data for NHS hospitals in England reported 2, admissions for assault by a sharp object between April and September For data relating to offences involving knives or sharp instruments see Other related tables , for geographic breakdowns see Police Force Area data tables and for sharp instrument homicides see Appendix tables: homicide in England and Wales.
In August , a pilot easing restrictions around emergency stop and search powers was extended to all 43 police forces in England and Wales.
Figure 9: Crimes involving firearms show a small decrease compared with the previous year England and Wales, year ending March to year ending March Source: Home Office — Police recorded crime Notes: Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics.
Data are provisional and have not been reconciled with police forces. Figures exclude conventional air weapons, such as air rifles. Download this chart Figure 9: Crimes involving firearms show a small decrease compared with the previous year Image.
For imitation firearms and other firearms, which are less serious weapon types, improvements in crime recording will have contributed to some of these increases, with police recording these offences when they would previously have been excluded. Detailed data for the year ending March were released in Offences involving the use of weapons: data tables in February For data relating to offences involving firearms see Other related tables. Data for the year ending March show that there were violence against the person and robbery offences recorded by the police in England and Wales that involved a corrosive substance.
The police will record which type of weapon has been used in an offence, given the evidence available. Imitation firearms include replica weapons, as well as low-powered weapons that fire small plastic pellets, such as BB guns and soft air weapons. For some types of crime, increases in the number of police recorded offences are largely because of recording improvements or more victims reporting, rather than a genuine rise in crime.
The effect has been particularly pronounced for some types of violence such as sexual offences, stalking and harassment, and offences flagged as domestic abuse-related. There is some evidence, however, that recording improvements are starting to have a smaller impact on these crime types, for example, for rape. The Crime Survey for England and Wales CSEW provides a better picture of the overall trend in violent crime and a more reliable measure of the long-term trends in sexual assault, stalking and harassment, and domestic abuse.
Sexual offences and domestic abuse-related crimes recorded by the police do not provide a reliable measure of trends in these types of crime. Improvements in police recording practices and increased reporting by victims have contributed to increases in recent years, although this effect is thought to be gradually receding.
The figures do, however, provide a good measure of the crime-related demand on the police. Estimates from the CSEW showed that 6.
There has been little change in the prevalence of domestic abuse in recent years. However, the cumulative effect of small year-on-year changes has resulted in a small, significantly lower prevalence for the year ending March 6. This increase is thought to reflect factors related to reporting and recording and does not provide a reliable indication of current trends.
Further information and data related to domestic abuse can be found in Domestic abuse in England and Wales overview: November This was a significant decrease compared with the previous year 2. Prior to this, from the year ending March , there had been a rise in the prevalence of sexual assault estimated by the survey. The number of sexual offences recorded by the police showed little change from the previous year from , to , offences.
The year ending March was the first year since with no increase. Rape was also seen to fall slightly from 55, to 55, offences for the year ending March This may suggest that the influence of improvements in recording practices for this particular offence is diminishing. While non-recent offences were an important contributor to rises in police recorded sexual offences in previous years, in the latest year, reports of non-recent offences have decreased and are therefore no longer contributing to an overall increase in sexual offences.
Other data related to sexual offences can be found in Sexual offending: victimisation and the path through the criminal justice system. For more detailed figures relating to violent crime including a time series see Appendix tables.
CSEW data on the prevalence of domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking can be found Table S42 in Annual supplementary tables. The Home Office Data Hub is a live database that allows police forces to provide the Home Office with record-level information on every crime recorded in a year. All theft includes theft from the person, other theft of personal property, domestic burglary, other household theft, vehicle-related theft and bicycle theft.
Download this chart Figure Following a short-term rising trend, Crime Survey for England and Wales overall theft offences have decreased to similar levels seen three years ago Image. The Crime Survey for England and Wales CSEW is the most reliable indicator for long-term trends in the more common types of crime experienced by the population, such as theft. This returns to levels seen in the year ending March reversing the rises seen over the last two years. The latest estimate was similar to that for the year ending March , offences and the year ending March , offences.
For the latest headline figures relating to theft and for more detailed figures including time series see Appendix tables. Additional demographic data from the CSEW related to theft can be found in the Annual demographic tables.
Figure Fall in police recorded burglary and a rise in police recorded robbery England and Wales, year ending March to year ending March Source: Home Office — Police recorded crime Notes: Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics. Download this chart Figure Fall in police recorded burglary and a rise in police recorded robbery Image. Police recorded crime data can give reliable indications of trends in some offences involving theft and may provide a better measure of short-term trends than the Crime Survey for England and Wales CSEW.
For example, domestic burglary and theft of a vehicle are less likely to be affected by the impact of recording improvements, as they are relatively well-reported to and subsequently recorded by the police. Robbery is an acquisitive crime involving violence or the threat of violence, that is more likely to be reported by the victim and recorded by the police than some other theft offences.
However, these figures are more likely to have been influenced by improvements in recording practices than robbery.
This is because robbery is an acquisitive crime involving violence or the threat of violence, that is more likely to be reported by the victim and recorded by the police than some other theft offences.
While recording improvements are likely to have varyingly contributed to the rise in robbery and theft from the person offences, some of these increases are likely to reflect a real change.
For the latest headline figures relating to burglary, robbery and vehicle theft and more detailed figures including time series see Appendix tables. Download this chart Figure After a rise in the year ending March Crime Survey for England and Wales criminal damage has returned to the long-term falling trend Image. This reversed the increase seen last year and continues the longer-term downward trend in criminal damage. The latest figure , offences was less than half the volume it was in the year ending December 1.
For the latest headline figures relating to criminal damage and more detailed figures including time series data see Appendix tables. Additional demographic data from the CSEW related to criminal damage can be found in Property crime tables. Download this chart Figure No significant change in the total estimated number of Crime Survey for England and Wales fraud incidents Image. In the year ending March , the estimated number of fraud incidents was 3. This did not change significantly from the previous year 3.
Fraud offences referred to the authorities make up a relatively small proportion of the overall volume of such crime. The CSEW captures a large volume of lower-harm cases that are less likely to have been reported to the authorities. Incidents of fraud referred to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau NFIB will include reports from businesses and other organisations, which are not included in the CSEW, and tend to be focused on the more serious cases.
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