England Knife Crime Hit All-Time High in Final Statistics Before Coronavirus Lockdown
“Higher-harm†crimes committed with knives have risen 49 per cent in less than a decade and is now at a historic high, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.
The number of police-recorded crimes categorised under ‘knife or sharp instrument offences’ rose seven per cent in a year, according to the latest set of government statistics that cover the year up to December 2019. The rise took the total number of knife offences to 45,627, the highest on record, and 49 per cent higher than “when comparable recording began†in 2010-11.
The crime classification of knife or sharp instrument offences is separate from simple knife-carrying offences and relates specifically to attacks, the ONS said, with “assault with injury and assault with intent to cause serious harm†and robberies accounting for 88 per cent of the crimes recorded under the category.
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