ONS · offence category: 37.2 Aggravated vehicle taking

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 37.2 Aggravated vehicle taking

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

17,911offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 37.2 Aggravated vehicle taking totalled 17,911 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 12.9% (2,655) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Aggravated vehicle taking
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
  5. 3913 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour05k10k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 11,560 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 11,570 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 11,409 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 10,943 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 10,920 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 10,334 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 9,730 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 8,000 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 6,954 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 6,253 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 5,652 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 5,255 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 5,424 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 5,828 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 5,819 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 5,860 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 5,606 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 5,647 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 4,541 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 4,772 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 4,960 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 4,643 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 4,395 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 3,913 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