Guernsey · Crime · 2008–2025
Recorded crime in Guernsey, 2008–2025.
As far as we are aware, Bailiwick Law Enforcement has never published this as a single chart — every Annual Report shows only the current year against one prior comparator. This is Bridgehead’s own reconstruction from eleven overlapping reports.
- Recorded crimes, 2025
- 2,215Recorded crimes, 2025
- Series peak, 2009
- 2,954Series peak, 2009
- Series low, 2016
- 1,389Series low, 2016
- Methodology breaks in the run
- 2Methodology breaks in the run
Guernsey: Guernsey Police / Bailiwick Law Enforcement Annual Reports, 2010-2025; States of Guernsey, Facts and Figures Booklet 2013 (Table 3.11, 2008-2012 series); States of Guernsey, Facts and Figures Booklet 2025 (Table 3.24, 2020-2024 series and both methodology-break notes).
For context
What Jersey and the UK publish instead
Neither is directly comparable to Guernsey's raw counts above — shown to illustrate the difference in how each publishes this data, not to rank the three.
Jersey: recorded crimes, with a published rate per 1,000 population
2022
3,061
recorded crimes
29.2 per 1,000 population
2023
3,155
recorded crimes
Rate not published for this year
Two years only: Jersey Police also publish an open-data rate series going back further, not independently re-verified year-by-year in this pass. The published rate is the thing Guernsey has no equivalent of at any point in the eighteen years above.
UK: CSEW violent-incident estimates, comparable back to 1995
One offence category, not all crime — a 75% fall from its 1995 peak, and only three cited readings, so the line between them is interpolation, not annual data. Police-recorded crime is a separate, non-comparable UK series due to recording-standard changes.
Jersey: States of Jersey Police Annual Report 2022, cited via States Assembly R.38-2024; States of Jersey Police Annual Report 2023; Jersey Open Data, "Recorded crime per 1,000 population by year". UK: ONS, "Crime in England and Wales" bulletin (year ending June 2025), Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).
Prescription drug diversion
Substance misuse and prescription drug diversion
Referrals into treatment, what people are actually addicted to, and how much of the opioid problem traces back to diverted prescriptions rather than illegal imports - drawn from a Rule 14 written question that has never been published as a standalone report.
Community Drug & Alcohol Team (CDAT), 2023
A single year, not a trend: the 2024 Combined Substance Use Strategy Annual Report had not been published when this answer was given. CDAT is secondary-care treatment only, not a count of every substance-misuse case in the Bailiwick.
Primary substance at CDAT assessment, 2023
Alcohol and opiates dominate; cannabis-only and mixed non-opiate cases were reported as exactly zero and are omitted. The “opiate + alcohol” bar is shown at its reported ceiling of 5 - the source gives only “<5”.
Drug-poisoning deaths, 2001–2022 (73 substance mentions across the period)
- Opioid analgesic specifically mentioned34%
- Alcohol mentioned19%
- Unspecified prescribed drugs15%
These Public Health percentages, and the deputy’s own arithmetic on them - approximately 25 deaths from diverted prescription opioids and a further 11 from other unspecified prescribed drugs - appear in Deputy Leadbeater’s question, not in the Committee’s answer. No death was attributed to cannabis. A death can carry more than one mention, so shares do not sum to 100%.
Bailiwick Law Enforcement, current political term
- Prescription-medicine seizures~700
- Identified as diversion71
- Successfully prosecuted10
Seizures span controlled Drug Classes A-C and are not limited to diversion fraud; medicinal cannabis is excluded, as it cannot be distinguished from other illegal sourcing in these figures.
Accountability
Guernsey Police senior leadership: time and travel
How much of their working time the Chief Officer and Deputy Chief Officer spend in the Bailiwick versus in the UK or working remotely, and what that UK travel costs - since the current Chief Officer took post in November 2024.
Covers only the two members of the Police Senior Leadership Team recruited from the UK - there were no others at the time of the request. 2026 figures run only to 6 February and are a partial year, not a down-year. The Chief Officer has no 2026 bar: the response says only that he spent no time working outside the Bailiwick in that window, without giving a day count, so there is no honest percentage to plot.
UK travel cost to the States of Guernsey
- Chief Officer, 2025£2079.16
- Deputy Chief Officer, 2025£1048.84
- Deputy Chief Officer, 2026£287.00
Business-purpose travel only - personal travel is not paid for by the States of Guernsey. The Chief Officer had no UK travel recorded in the 2026 partial year.
Journeys, 2025
- Chief Officer - ferry/plane single journeys10
- Chief Officer - return flights5
- Deputy Chief Officer - return ferry (2025 / 2026)1 / 1
- Deputy Chief Officer - return flights (2025 / 2026)2 / 0
Salary and individual allowance figures were withheld under exemption 2.12, as they relate to a specific identifiable individual.