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ONS · offence category: 35 Blackmail

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 35 Blackmail

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

133,094offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 35 Blackmail totalled 133,094 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 111.7% (70,216) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Blackmail [note 42]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 33174 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour010k20k30k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 1,331 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 1,497 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 1,465 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 1,645 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 2,481 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 1,201 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 1,363 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 1,450 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 1,491 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 1,369 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 1,497 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 2,134 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 3,507 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 5,916 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 7,353 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 8,261 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 13,839 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 11,004 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 16,064 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 21,971 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 31,308 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 37,874 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 30,738 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 33,174 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