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ONS · offence category: 79 Perverting the course of justice

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 79 Perverting the course of justice

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

24,333offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 79 Perverting the course of justice totalled 24,333 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 10.2% (2,749) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Perverting the course of justice
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 6271 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour05k10k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 11,346 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 11,894 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 11,567 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 12,712 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 11,114 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 9,131 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 8,396 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 7,997 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 6,890 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 5,698 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 4,947 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 5,368 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 6,297 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 6,437 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 6,651 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 7,235 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 7,262 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 6,833 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 6,703 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 6,284 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 6,077 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 5,953 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 6,032 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 6,271 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