The crime rate reported by the West Midlands Police Force in 2023/24 was 111.1 crimes per 1,000 people compared with 125.9 in the previous reporting year. West Midlands Police are responsible for policing the large city of Birmingham, as well as other settlements such as Coventry.

There were 328,180 crimes reported by the West Midlands Police Force in 2023/24, compared with 367,206 in the previous reporting year. West Midlands Police are responsible for policing the large city of Birmingham, as well as other settlements such as Coventry.

There were 43 homicide crimes reported by the West Midlands Police Force in 2023/24, compared with 37 in the previous reporting year. West Midlands Police are responsible for policing the large city of Birmingham, as well as other settlements such as Coventry.

In the 2023/24 reporting year, West Yorkshire Police reported a crime rate of 121.7 crimes per 1,000 population, the highest crime rate among the provided police force areas whose territories include large cities. Greater Manchester Police reported a crime rate of 117.7 crimes per 1,000 population, and had the second-highest crime rate during this year.

This statistic shows the ten cities with the highest car crime rate in Great Britain in 2011 and 2012. Manchester clearly has the highest car crime rate in the country, however, cities like Manchester, London and Birmingham are particularly big. Bradford is not a particularly big city, but it has a very high car crime rate. The national average was only 121 cars stolen per 10 thousand registered which is stark contrast with the ten cities in the list.

In 2023/24 there were 116 homicide offences recorded in London, the most of any region of the United Kingdom during that time period. North West England, which includes the large city of Manchester had 71 homicides, and had the second-highest number of homicides. In the same reporting period, the constituent countries of Northern Ireland and Wales reported the fewest homicides, at 24 each. Homicides in the UK falling despite recent uptick Since 2002/03, all three jurisdictions of the UK; England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, have seen their homicide rates fall, with Scotland seeing the steepest decline. The most significant decline in homicides in this period occurred between 2002/03 and 2014/15, which saw the annual number of homicides in England and Wales half from over 1,000 to 500. This trend was suddenly reversed from 2015/16 onwards, with homicides rising to around 700 per year between 2016/17 and 2019/20. While homicides fell back to 583 in 2023/24, it remains to be seen if this pattern will continue. Knives used in almost half of all murders In 2022/23 a knife or other sharp instrument was used in over 41 percent of all murders in England and Wales, making this, by far, the most common method of killing in that reporting year. The overall number of knife homicides reached 244 in 2022/23, compared with 282 in the previous year, and just above the 281 reported in 2017/18. Firearm homicides were much rarer than knife homicides, with 29 taking place in the same reporting year, and homicides caused by shooting only accounting for 4.9 percent of homicides overall.

There were 8,000 police officers working in the West Midlands Police Force in 2024, an increase when compared with the previous year.

In the 223/24 reporting year, the Cleveland police force reported a homicide rate of 22.4 homicides per million people, the highest among the provided police force areas in England in that year