Possession of a blade offences resulting in a community sentence 2013-2017

This statistic displays the number of offences of possession of an article with a blade or point resulting in a community sentence in England and Wales from 2013 to 2017. During this five year period the number of offences of possession of an article with a blade of a point resulting in a community sentence increased. Amounting to 2,679 in 2013, the number of community sentences grew year on year, reaching 3,162 community sentences in 2017.