14,626 knife offences were recorded by police in the capital in the twelve months to December 2023.
That was 22% higher than the 2022 total of 12,034 offences, and meant that an average of 40 blade offences were committed each day in London last year.
A 20% rise was seen in gun crimes with 1,208 such offences during 2023, up by nearly 200 on the 1,010 recorded by police a year earlier.