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ONS · offence category: Possession of drugs (subtotal)

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): Possession of drugs (subtotal)

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

563,416offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for Possession of drugs (subtotal) totalled 563,416 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 3.1% (18,121) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Possession of drugs
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 157786 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0100k200k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 120,885 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 118,883 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 121,647 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 153,203 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 167,683 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 201,590 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 213,651 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 202,361 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 200,586 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 197,783 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 178,257 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 168,868 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 143,321 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 123,647 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 113,284 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 111,379 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 123,899 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 149,246 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 168,210 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 140,182 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 135,942 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 130,523 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 139,165 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 157,786 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