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ONS · offence category: 126 Interfering with a motor vehicle

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 126 Interfering with a motor vehicle

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

200,279offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 126 Interfering with a motor vehicle totalled 200,279 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 11.1% (24,934) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Interfering with a motor vehicle [note 40,41]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 44352 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour025k50k75k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 92,473 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 89,892 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 77,004 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 71,400 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 68,980 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 54,003 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 47,639 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 38,019 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 29,987 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 25,009 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 22,492 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 20,367 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 38,059 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 45,682 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 52,209 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 65,058 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 65,131 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 62,303 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 50,017 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 47,762 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 52,266 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 53,397 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 50,264 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 44,352 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