Police data has revealed that there have been 13.6 per cent fewer recorded knife-enabled crimes between August 2025 and July 2026 than there were during the previous 12 month period.
Figures released by Thames Valley Police show 375 knife-enabled crimes were recorded between August 2025 and July 2026.
This was 59 fewer than the 434 offences recorded during the previous 12-month period, representing a decrease of 13.6 per cent.
However, figures covering April to July of this year, 2026, show an increase compared with the same period last year.
Between April and July 2026, police recorded 139 knife-enabled crimes in Buckinghamshire.
This was 14 more than the 125 offences recorded between April and July 2025, an increase of 11.2 per cent.
Thames Valley Police defines knife-enabled crime as specified offences where a knife-crime qualifier has been applied.
These can include murder, attempted murder, rape, sexual assault, robbery, threats to kill and specified grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm offences.
The report does not provide a breakdown showing how many of Buckinghamshire’s knife-enabled crimes fell into each offence category.
It also does not identify where in the county the offences were recorded or provide details about the circumstances of individual cases.
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A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said: "An increase of 34% in knife-enabled crime recorded between April to July 2026 against April to July 2025, appears to have been driven largely by a series of youth robberies involving mobile phones in April, totalling to 11.
"Most of those responsible were not local to Buckinghamshire and were identified and arrested, which may explain why the short-term increase does not necessarily reflect the longer-term trend."
They added that while areas including Aylesbury town, Chesham and Amersham have seen increases in knife-enabled offences, they are areas that have the highest levels of footfall,
The spokesperson said: "Thames Valley Police continues to take a proactive approach to tackling knife crime through targeted enforcement, neighbourhood policing activity and partnership working to prevent offending and safeguard young people.
"The identification and arrest of offenders involved in recent incidents has resulted in a reduction on offending in recent months, this demonstrates that these measures are having a positive impact in keeping communities safe.”
The knife-enabled figures form part of the force’s latest crime summary, which shows overall recorded crime excluding fraud fell by 1.2 per cent in Buckinghamshire over the same rolling 12-month period.
Thames Valley Police said its crime-recording system is dynamic and additional information identified during an investigation can lead to an offence being reclassified.
The force said crime levels and classifications may therefore change over time and the data should be used as an indicator of crime trends and is subject to change.
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