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Police recorded knife-enabled robbery offences
Management information on knife-enabled robberies (KER) recorded by the 7 KER Group police forces. This is the first release of a new regular quarterly series.
Applies to England and Wales
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This release provides information from the 7 KER Group police forces on the number of monthly KER offences they have recorded up to March 2026. The 7 forces are: Avon and Somerset, Greater Manchester, Metropolitan, South Yorkshire, West Midlands, West Yorkshire and British Transport Police (England and Wales only).
The latest provisional management information shows that these 7 forces recorded 12,650 KER offences in the YE March 2026, a 21% fall compared with the June 2024 baseline (15,918 offences).
The data is provisional and taken from live force systems.
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Published 20 May 2026