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ONS · offence category: 92E Possession of cannabis

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 92E Possession of cannabis

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

397,435offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 92E Possession of cannabis totalled 397,435 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 11.2% (50,257) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Possession of cannabis [note 47]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 107157 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 2026LabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour050k100k150k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2005: 88,263 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 119,917 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 130,395 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 158,254 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 167,950 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 162,800 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 160,733 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 160,203 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 142,627 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 133,604 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 110,297 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 93,634 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 84,759 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 82,750 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 91,877 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 113,782 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 134,513 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 107,520 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 101,794 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 92,597 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 95,887 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 107,157 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