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UK crime: child abduction in England and Wales 2002-2018

Number of police recorded child abduction offences in England and Wales from 2002/03 to 2017/18
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The data displays the number of police recorded child abduction offences in England and Wales from 2002/03 to 2017/18. Throughout this period the number of these offences has fluctuated, although between 2007/08 and 2013/14 there was consistently less than 600 offences per year. From 2014/15 onwards the number of these offences has increased, and in the most recent reporting year of 2017/18 there were 1189 offences, a peak for this period.

02/03 846
03/04 930
04/05 1035
05/06 919
06/07 696
07/08 595
08/09 567
09/10 560
10/11 548
11/12 532
12/13 513
13/14 565
14/15 817
15/16 1038
16/17 1128
17/18 1189