decrease in Police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in the last 12 months (up to March 2025)
Knife Crime Statistics
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1%
53047
Police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument (up to March 2025)
81%
increase in Police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in the last 10 years (up to March 2025)
Regional Knife Crime Data
31%
of all police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument were recorded by The Metropolitan Police Service (up to March 2025)
8%
of all police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument were recorded by the West Midlands Police (up to March 2025)
2%
of all police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument were recorded by the Greater Manchester Police (up to March 2025)
Knife murders
262
murders involving a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales in the 12 months to March 2024.
57
young people aged under 25 were murdered with a knife or sharp object in the 12 months to March 2024. 17 were aged under 16.
Type of sharp instrument used in knife murders
18
machetes
were recorded as the type of sharp instrument used in a homicide in the year ending March 2024.
109
kitchen knives
were the type of sharp instrument used in a homicide and the most frequent murder weapon, accounting for 44% of all knife homicides (year ending March 2024.)
4
Zombie knives
were recorded as the type of sharp instrument used in a homicide in the year ending March 2024.
Hospital admissions
3508
the number of admissions into NHS hospitals in England and Wales for assault by a sharp object in the year ending March 2025.
10%
decrease in the number of admissions for assault by a sharp object in the year ending March 2025.
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