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ONS · offence category: 13 Child abduction

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 13 Child abduction

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

4,519offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 13 Child abduction totalled 4,519 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 3.7% (161) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Child abduction
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 1171 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour05001k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 846 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 930 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 1,035 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 919 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 696 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 595 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 567 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 560 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 548 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 532 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 513 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 565 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 817 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 1,046 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 1,141 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 1,198 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 1,271 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 1,115 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 960 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 1,012 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 1,112 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 1,124 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 1,112 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 1,171 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