"Figure 3: The total number of offences flagged as domestic abuse-related increased during the lockdown period, continuing long-term gradual increases observed in recent years","" "Total number of offences (excluding fraud) flagged as domestic abuse-related by month, January 2018 to June 2020, England and Wales (excluding Greater Manchester Police)","" "","" "Notes","1. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics. 2. April 2020 to June 2020 data are provisional and have not been fully reconciled with police forces. 3. Data for Greater Manchester Police (GMP) on domestic abuse-related offences are not included in this publication because of issues with their data supply following the implementation of new IT systems." "Unit","Number of offences" "","" "","2018","2019","2020" "Jan","49178"," 58829 "," 64910 " "Feb","43811"," 53905 "," 61531 " "Mar","49815"," 59851 "," 61212 " "April","53577"," 59067 "," 61947 " "May","57489"," 60900 "," 67517 " "June","58087"," 62595 "," 68648 " "July","65746"," 68144 ","" "Aug","60642"," 67041 ","" "Sep","56514"," 62074 ","" "Oct","58389"," 63981 ","" "Nov","55569"," 61770 ","" "Dec","60833"," 65716 ",""