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ONS · offence category: 92D Possession of controlled drugs (excluding cannabis)

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 92D Possession of controlled drugs (excluding cannabis)

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

163,490offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 92D Possession of controlled drugs (excluding cannabis) totalled 163,490 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 25.3% (32,969) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Possession of controlled drugs (excluding cannabis) [note 47]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 50020 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2005 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2005 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour020k40k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2005: 32,603 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 32,685 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 36,608 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 42,519 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 44,578 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 38,439 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 38,711 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 36,453 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 34,596 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 34,066 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 32,245 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 29,414 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 27,442 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 27,827 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 31,217 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 34,674 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 32,672 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 31,958 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 33,400 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 37,300 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 42,770 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 50,020 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