ONS · offence category: 814 Fraud, forgery associated with vehicle driver records

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 814 Fraud, forgery associated with vehicle driver records

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

3,936offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 814 Fraud, forgery associated with vehicle driver records totalled 3,936 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 14.2% (488) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Fraud, forgery associated with vehicle driver records
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
  5. 1168 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour03k5k8k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 8,618 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 8,016 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 5,420 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 4,206 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 3,138 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 2,164 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 1,387 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 1,058 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 733 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 606 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 473 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 445 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 389 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 509 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 655 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 773 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 892 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 947 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 816 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 793 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 847 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 797 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 1,124 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 1,168 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