"Figure 6: Police recorded sexual offences are at the highest level recorded since the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002","" "Year ending March 2003 to year ending March 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. The Sexual Offences Act 2003, introduced in May 2004, altered the definition and coverage of sexual offences. 2. From July 2016, the Home Office counting rules in regards to rape were changed to record rape on a per offender basis. 3. Operation Yewtree is the police investigation into allegations of sexual abuse, launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. " "Unit","Number of offences" "","" "","Rape","Other sexual offences","Total sexual offences" "","12295","44357","56652" "2004","13272","47140","60412" "","14013","46911","60924" "2006","14443","45844","60287" "","13774","42268","56042" "2008","12673","39493","52166" "","13096","37089","50185" "2010","15074","37932","53006" "","15892","38048","53940" "2012","16038","36722","52760" "","16374","37225","53599" "2014","20751","43481","64232" "","29394","59123","88517" "2016","35850","70533","106383" "","41509","80360","121869" "2018","53970","96877","150847"