Available information for knife and sharp instrument offences recorded by the police for selected offences are provided for 2007-08 only. Data are not available for previous years.
Data for 2008-09 will be published on 16 July. It should be noted that GBH offences for 2008-09 will not be comparable with those published for 2007-08.
This is due to a change in the clarification rules for recording GBH with intent, and a change in the definitional coverage of GBH without intent.
Number Police force Attempted murder Wounding with intent to do GBH Wounding or inflicting GBH without intent Avon and Somerset 3 85 27 Bedfordshire 4 67 14 British Transport Police 0 11 1 Cambridgeshire 3 21 16 Cheshire 1 64 26 Cleveland 4 76 17 Cumbria 2 20 35 Derbyshire 2 49 28 Devon and Cornwall 5 127 45 Dorset 0 20 11 Durham 2 53 8 Dyfed-Powys 3 31 31 Essex 6 89 10 Gloucestershire 1 15 4 Greater Manchester 20 600 315 Gwent 1 79 8 Hampshire 7 88 108 Hertfordshire 8 46 35 Humberside 2 55 34 Kent 10 94 32 Lancashire 8 138 46 Leicestershire 5 99 25 Lincolnshire 0 29 9 London, City of 1 3 2 Merseyside 3 312 52 Metropolitan Police 59 878 869 Norfolk 1 22 13 North Wales 1 56 25 North Yorkshire 1 21 4 Northamptonshire 3 83 10 Northumbria 1 140 64 Nottinghamshire 5 122 27 South Wales 0 333 46 South Yorkshire 6 111 43 Staffordshire 1 34 75 Suffolk 2 33 42 Surrey 6 25 18 Sussex 2 62 84 Thames Valley 9 63 30 Warwickshire 2 41 14 West Mercia 1 43 20 West Midlands 14 561 370 West Yorkshire 10 306 75 Wiltshire 6 43 17 1 Includes racially or religiously aggravated wounding or inflicting GBH.