Key information
Request reference number: 691
Date of response:
Summary of request
You requested:
Can you please provide statistics on knife crime in London?
I would like to know the following:
How many knife crimes have been carried out in London in the past 24 months?
How many arrests have been made in relation to the above?
What is the ethnicity/demographic of those people who were attested?
How many of those arrested have been convicted of knife crime offences?
How many of those arrested had previous convictions for knife crime and other serious offences?
Our response:
Please see the below statistics on how many knife crime offences have been recorded for the requested period:
MOPAC does not hold any information relating to remaining elements of your request. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) may hold this information and can assist you further. You can make a request directly via their website at Make an FOI request to ask for information about the police | Metropolitan Police.