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Home Office · offence group: Possession of weapons offences

Charge rate: Possession of weapons offences

Year ending March 2026

31.5%percent

Charge rate for Possession of weapons offences totalled 31.5% percent in the period to Year ending March 2026, up 8.1% (2.4%) on the period before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. Table_1_2
  3. Possession of weapons offences
  4. column “Charged/ summonsed”
  5. 0.3153158933068151 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2025 to Year ending March 2026

Charge rate by offence group: Year ending March 2025 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabour0%10%20%30%20252026Year ending March 2025: 29.2% percent · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 31.5% percent · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The percentage of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year to March that had resulted in a charge or summons when the year's outcomes were first published, for each offence group and for victim-based and non-victim-based offences.

Other outcome types, outcomes assigned after first publication, or offences recorded in earlier years.

Source

Dataset
Crime outcomes in England and Wales
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 ddbe454ad864e5fb…
All values
Charge rate by offence group