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ONS · police force area: Dorset

Possession of weapons (police-recorded): Dorset

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

860offences

Possession of weapons (police-recorded) for Dorset totalled 860 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table P1
  3. Dorset
  4. column “Possession of weapons offences”
  5. 403 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2025 to Year ending March 2026

Possession of weapons offences by police force area: Year ending March 2025 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabour020040020252026Year ending March 2025: 457 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 403 offences · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The number of police-recorded possession of weapons offences in each police force area of England and Wales in the year ending March, with the England and Wales total (which includes British Transport Police).

Fraud (excluded from all sub-national breakdowns), crime that was not reported to the police, regional or national aggregates other than England and Wales, or crime in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Source

Dataset
Police force area data tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 27d7884ef0e07dad…
All values
Possession of weapons (police-recorded) by police force area
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