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ONS · offence category: 60 Forgery or use of drug prescription

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 60 Forgery or use of drug prescription

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

804offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 60 Forgery or use of drug prescription totalled 804 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 19.8% (199) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Forgery or use of drug prescription
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 214 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour025050075020052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 881 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 805 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 747 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 693 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 593 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 440 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 446 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 343 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 298 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 361 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 379 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 416 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 422 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 399 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 346 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 377 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 366 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 258 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 187 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 192 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 277 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 167 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 146 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 214 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