Knife and gun crime statistics between 1 November 2020 to 1 November 2023
Date of request: 23 November 2023
Reference: 1371-23
Request
1/Please could you confirm the total number of knife crimes between 1 November 2020 to 1 November 2023?
2/Please can this data be broken down by area?
3/ Please could you confirm the total number of gun crimes between 1 November 2020 to 1 November 2023?
4/ Please can this data be broken down by area?
Response
We have searched our crime recording data base for ‘knife’ and ‘firearms’ tag for the period 01 November 2020 to 01 November 2023. This has been broken down by Local Authority Area.
Q1/ and Q2/
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Sum: | |
| Avon & Somerset | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Bath & North East Somerset | 33 | 214 | 215 | 245 | 707 |
| Bristol | 184 | 1582 | 1546 | 1514 | 4826 |
| North Somerset | 36 | 357 | 300 | 275 | 968 |
| Out of Force | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Somerset | 103 | 850 | 849 | 773 | 2575 |
| South Gloucestershire | 40 | 374 | 373 | 335 | 1122 |
| Not recorded | 8 | 40 | 26 | 42 | 116 |
| Sum: | 405 | 3418 | 3310 | 3187 | 10320 |
Q3 and Q4
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Sum: | |
| Bath & North East Somerset | 7 | 4 | 8 | 19 | |
| Bristol | 5 | 44 | 30 | 32 | 111 |
| North Somerset | 1 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 32 |
| Out of Force | 1 | 1 | |||
| Somerset | 8 | 36 | 18 | 21 | 83 |
| South Gloucestershire | 3 | 14 | 7 | 16 | 40 |
| Not recorded | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | |
| Sum: | 17 | 119 | 67 | 93 | 296 |
The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.