"Figure 8: Rising trend in crimes involving knives or sharp instruments, driven by increases in assaults with injury or assaults with intent to cause serious harm and robberies","" "England and Wales, year ending June 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics. 2. Police recorded knife or sharp instrument offences data are submitted via a special collection. This figure is based on this special collection. Other offences that are not shown in this chart may include the use of a knife or sharp instrument. 3. Police recorded crime statistics are based on data from 43 police forces in England and Wales. Data from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) are excluded. A review revealed that they were undercounting knife or sharp instrument offences. Following this review, there has been a sharp increase in the number of knife or sharp instrument offences recorded by GMP since December 2017. Previous data have not been revised and the data are therefore not comparable. 4. Lancashire could not supply data, for offences involving knives or sharp instruments, in time for publication for April to June 2019 as a result of technical issues. Data for Lancashire have been imputed using national trends and will be corrected in future publications when data are submitted by this force. 5. Information for individual police forces can be found in [Table P4](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables) published alongside this bulletin. 6. Changes to offence codes in April 2012 mean the category of assault with injury and assault with intent to cause serious harm is not strictly comparable with previous years although figures would have been similar. [Appendix Table A4](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables) contains more details. 7. Other selected offences include rape, attempted murder, homicide and sexual assault." "Unit","Number of offences" "","" "","Threats to kill","Assault with injury and assault with intent to cause serious harm","Robbery","Other selected offences" "Mar 11","1352"," 13129 "," 15377 "," 762 " "Mar 12","1103"," 11892 "," 15529 "," 726 " "Mar 13","1104"," 10700 "," 12376 "," 618 " "Mar 14","1233"," 10915 "," 11051 "," 746 " "Mar 15","1580"," 12489 "," 9632 "," 850 " "Mar 16","2082"," 14506 "," 9921 "," 955 " "Mar 17","2709","17487","12415","1115" "","","","","" "Jun 18","3145"," 19583 "," 17199 "," 1231 " "Jun 19","3764","19994","18987","1331"