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ONS · offence category: 8B Possession of weapons

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 8B Possession of weapons

4 periods to Year ending March 2008

139,166offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 8B Possession of weapons totalled 139,166 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2008.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Possession of weapons [note 48]
  4. column “Apr 2007 to Mar 2008”
  5. 32513 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2008

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2008LabourLabourLabourLabour010k20k30k200320042005200620072008Year ending March 2003: 32,816 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 35,669 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 36,374 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 35,590 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 34,689 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 32,513 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