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ONS · police force area: Metropolitan Police

Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument: Metropolitan Police

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

58,111offences

Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument for Metropolitan Police totalled 58,111 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 16.9% (8,398) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table P6
  3. Metropolitan Police [note 7]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 13806 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2011 to Year ending March 2026

Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument by police force area: Year ending March 2011 to Year ending March 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour05k10k15k201520202025Before: Force recording practice before the National Data Quality Improvement Service. After: Recording under the National Data Quality Improvement Service, adopted by most forces from April 2019.methodology changeYear ending March 2011: 12,485 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 13,260 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 10,618 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 9,382 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 9,016 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 9,072 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 11,213 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 13,709 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 13,819 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 14,680 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 10,080 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 11,134 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 12,864 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 15,156 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 16,285 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 13,806 offences · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The number of selected serious offences recorded by each police force in England and Wales that involved a knife or sharp instrument, for every year ending March since 2011, with the England and Wales total (which includes British Transport Police).

Possession of a knife without it being used, the share of offences involving a knife (the percentage columns are not read), regional aggregates, or offences before the force joined the collection.

Source

Dataset
Police force area data tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 27d7884ef0e07dad…
All values
Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument by police force area