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Please provide National gun and knife crimes reported - times and area.
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Thank you for your request.
Police recorded knife or sharp instrument offences and firearms data are submitted to the Home Office via an additional special collection.
We publish knife or sharp instrument offence and firearms data alongside our quarterly 'Crime in England and Wales' bulletin. The lowest level geography available, is for police force area. The latest data (covering the year ending September 2020) can be found in Tables P4, P5, P6 and P7 of the Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables.
The Home Office publish a series of open data tables on police recorded crimes broken down by police force area, financial year and quarter, and equivalent open data tables are available for crimes involving a knife or sharp instrument, which include some incidents where a knife may not have been used as a weapon, and open data tables for offences involving the use of firearms since 2009.
If you have any questions regarding this data source, including any further breakdown for the time period you are interested in, you can contact the Home Office. They can be reached at: CrimeandPoliceStats@homeoffice.gov.uk.
The data referred to above only cover England and Wales; unfortunately, we do not hold police recorded crime data covering the whole of the UK.
Crime-related data for Scotland are published by the Scottish Government and are available here: Scottish Law and Order Statistics.
Police recorded crime data for Northern Ireland are published by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and are available here: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) Crime and Justice Statistics.