Police recorded 978 violent offences involving knives or bladed articles in Nottinghamshire in the year to June 2026, an increase of 20.3% on the previous year.
The figures appear in a performance update which also shows a fall in the proportion of violent knife offences receiving a positive outcome.
However, the report says changes to Home Office crime-counting rules affecting business robbery partly account for the rise in recorded knife crime. The increase cannot therefore be treated as a direct measure of how much underlying violence has risen.
The violent knife crime category includes offences such as attempted murder, threats to kill, assaults, sexual offences and robbery involving a knife or bladed article. It is not a count of stabbings.
The total of 978 offences was also 18.8% above the plan’s baseline period of April 2023 to March 2024. The police and crime plan aims to bring the annual figure below 760.
The positive outcome rate for violent knife crime stood at 17.4%, down two percentage points on a year earlier and 2.7 percentage points on the previous quarter. This is a police outcome measure, rather than a conviction rate.
The report says knife-enabled domestic violence has increased, but the main rise has involved incidents in public or open spaces outside domestic abuse, linked to an increase in robbery offences.
It also describes an operation aimed at tackling and understanding offending by young people in Nottingham city centre, with activity monitored across different force departments.
The wider figures present a mixed picture.
Police recorded 11,501 offences of violence with injury, up 0.7% on the previous year. Recorded possession-of-weapons offences fell by 4.2% to 1,637.
Separately, personal robbery increased by 16.1% to 1,048 offences, while theft from the person rose by 8.2% to 1,033.
The report says some offences previously recorded as shoplifting and assault are now being classified as robbery following changes to recording standards.
It identifies Operation Reclaim as part of the response to rising crime and neighbourhood concerns in Nottingham city centre.
The multi-agency initiative uses the Home Office’s “Clear, Hold, Build” approach and covers issues including organised crime, retail crime, drug dealing, knife crime and youth-related antisocial behaviour.
The figures form part of the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Plan performance update to the end of June 2026.
