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ONS · offence category: 9A Public fear, alarm or distress

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 9A Public fear, alarm or distress

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

1,481,035offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 9A Public fear, alarm or distress totalled 1,481,035 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 3.1% (47,815) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Public fear, alarm or distress [note 24,25,51]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 314948 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0200k400k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 91,561 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 116,566 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 147,801 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 164,061 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 173,152 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 158,045 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 142,246 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 126,597 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 114,781 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 97,085 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 81,139 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 79,601 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 96,007 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 135,236 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 199,939 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 285,913 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 338,103 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 348,219 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 371,297 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 471,231 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 468,466 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 368,156 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 329,465 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 314,948 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