Machete offences
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/26/9416
Version Date: 05/02/2026
The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Data Source:
Crime data from Niche
Data Processing:
QlikSense report Crime and Outcomes filtered on
Crimed date: 01/11/2025 - 31/12/2025
Include No-Crimes: No
Include Non-Notifiables: Yes
Data extracted to excel
Summary and MO Text searched in for keywords:
("*machete*" or "*machette*" or "*machetes*")
Data Limitations:
Data is limited to the presence of the of the keyword, but not its relevance.
1. For the months of November and December 2025 how many crimes were logged by your force where a machete was recorded as being an element in the offence? [Note: I would hope that this could be achieved by a computer search on the MO of crimes for the words "machete" or variants of the spelling to include "machette" and "machetes".
22 offences
2. Please provide me with a table showing a breakdown of the crimes from Question 1 that are `linked’ to machete/s by its mention in the MO.
|
Offence |
Total |
|
Affray |
1 |
|
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm ABH |
1 |
|
Criminal damage to a dwelling - including endangering life |
2 |
|
Criminal damage to a Vehicle - including endangering life |
1 |
|
Fear or provocation of violence. |
2 |
|
Harassment - put in fear of violence |
2 |
|
Possess an offensive weapon in a public place |
1 |
|
Possess knife blade / sharp pointed article in a public place |
1 |
|
Possession of an offensive weapon in a private place |
1 |
|
Robbery - Personal |
1 |
|
Send communication threatening death or serious harm |
2 |
|
Sending indecent / grossly offensive communications etc with intent to cause distress or anxiety |
3 |
|
Threaten a person with a blade / sharply pointed article in a public place |
2 |
|
Threats to kill |
2 |
|
Total |
22 |
3.Taking the month of December 2025 please provide me with copies of the first 5 MOs that mention machetes. [Note: To avoid falling into an exemption I am content for names, ages, geography or any other personal detail to be redacted].
- One of the offenders then lifted up their shirt revealing a large knife/machete causing aggrieved to fear coming to harm.
- Offenders have sent multiple messages on social media making threats to stab him. Also sent was a photo of a 6 inch machete knife. Aggrieved is in fear of violence and feels threatened.
- Male victim, with no identified relationship to male offender, has been threatened with a machette by suspect saying 'hand me what you have or i will kill you'.
- Offensive weapon, report of fight in street involving possible machete.
- 3 offenders all wearing black and balaclavas, brandishing machetes have attended property and thrown a fist sized rock through the living room window causing the glass to smash