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ONS · offence category: 8R Malicious communication

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 8R Malicious communication

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

636,023offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 8R Malicious communication totalled 636,023 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 36.4% (363,431) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Malicious communication [note 26]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 91987 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2018 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2018 to Year ending March 2026ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0100k200k20182020202220242026Year ending March 2018: 159,826 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 208,177 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 228,031 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 274,307 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 288,939 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 274,777 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 170,370 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 98,889 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 91,987 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