Knife crime in London has increased About 60 percent of the new analysis has shown in the last three years.
West end Capital knife crime is hotspot, accounting for one in every 15 Knife attack in londonReport from Policy exchange The think tank said.
Research found that in 2024, a small area of about 20 roads in the West end of London is near. Oxford circus And Regent Street The rest of the capital had more than 15 percent knife crime.
Across the UK, the knife crime registered by the police in the year ending March 2025 declined by 1 percent, compared to the previous year, 53,047 crimes, with 53,685 offenses.
Metropolitan PoliceWhich is the force for most people in London, 31 percent of all knives in England and Wales in 2024.
The highest hotspot in the West End had 108 knife offenses crime, jointly more than 716 “safest” areas.
The region includes Oxford Circus and New Bond Street, Oxford Street, Regent Street and parts of Pikadili Circus.
Known as a low-layer super output regions (LSOA), these areas are geographical areas, including a resident population between 1,000 and 3,000 people.
According to the Policy Exchange, the top 200 LSOAS reported 3,615 knife crimes in 2024 for knife crime within London.
The report recommended that the Mate Police should present the “zero tolerance” approach to the top 20 knife crime hotspot. It was suggested that officials in these areas will operate the “very high versions” of stops and discoveries.
It was also recommended that permanent live facial recognition system should be deployed in each of the top knife crime hotspots in London, in which officers have been posted in the Peak Times.
David Spencer, a former Met Detective and the author of the report said: “The only approach that will work and will be recognized by the public because working is a ‘zero-evidencement’ approach for crime and criminals-especially in places where crime prevails.”
Most of the knife crimes in London are robbery, official statistical show, Mobile phone A major goal. Of the 16,789 knife offenses committed in 2024, 62 percent of them were robberies (10,346).
earlier this year, Independent revealed In July for 12 months last year, at least 83,900 phone theft offenses were registered across the country – about 45,800 five years ago.
Data received from 29 forces suggest that the Metropolitan Police last year dealt with more than three-fourths of all mobile phone theft (64,224), followed by Kent Police (1,722), South Yorkshire Police (1,577) and Lancashire Police (1,467).
Lead Commander Hele Sewart for knife crime in the Metropolitan Police Service said: “It is our top priority to deal with violent crime and every month in London we are making more than 1,000 arrests compared to last year – both knife related crimes (16 percent) and loot (13 percent) have fallen significantly.
“We have been putting more officials than ever using our stops and search powers to take 17,500 weapons on the roads in the last four years, and deploy new technology and data-operated strategy to provide justice to criminals.”
A spokesman for the Mayor of London said: “Nothing is important to the Mayor than to keep the London safe and is firm to continue the lead to the front to create a safe London for all.
“Thanks to the hard work of the Met police and partners, the murder, the deadly barrel discharge with gun crime, injury and theft with all the knife crimes have all below since 2016 and the teenage murders were the lowest for more than a decade last year.”
“A increased approach to record funding from the mayor and the neighborhood policing in the West End has dropped personal robberies to 20 percent and the violence has declined by 25 percent in the previous year.
“Mayor is firm to manufacture this progress – his record £ 1.16BN funding has secured 935 police officers and he has worked with the commissioner to increase the number of police officers on the beat in West End, as well as additional police officers working in new or increased town center teams in hotspot areas.”