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ONS · offence category: 92A Trafficking in controlled drugs

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 92A Trafficking in controlled drugs

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

236,284offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 92A Trafficking in controlled drugs totalled 236,284 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 60.3% (88,873) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Trafficking in controlled drugs
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 73344 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour020k40k60k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 22,435 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 24,628 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 24,190 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 25,276 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 26,550 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 28,323 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 29,885 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 33,223 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 32,336 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 31,316 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 29,746 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 29,348 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 27,368 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 26,079 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 25,939 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 27,138 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 30,483 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 34,669 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 42,944 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 39,315 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 43,929 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 52,376 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 66,635 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 73,344 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