Hillingdon stands out by a wide margin in the Metropolitan Police’s September crime figures for a broad category of offences known as “miscellaneous crimes against society”, recording 194 offences in the month — more than three times as many as any other borough shown on the force’s crime dashboard.
Newham came second with 62 offences, leaving a gap of 132 between the west London borough and its nearest rival. Lambeth followed with 55, then Tower Hamlets with 52 and Westminster with 49.
The category is a wide one, and that breadth matters when reading the table. It covers offences including handling stolen goods, forgery, fraud, dangerous driving, wildlife crime, perjury and perverting the course of justice. It can also include more serious matters, among them concealing the death of an infant close to birth and aiding suicide.
In other words, the headline counts group together very different kinds of offending, from fraud and forgery to dangerous driving, rather than describing a single type of crime. A borough’s position in this table therefore says nothing on its own about any one offence type.
Set against the rest of the capital, Hillingdon’s figure is still striking. Its 194 offences were nearly four times Westminster’s 49 and more than four times the 46 recorded in Greenwich. At the other end of the table, Richmond upon Thames recorded just 11 — a difference of 183, or nearly eighteen times fewer.
| Borough | Offences recorded, September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hillingdon | 194 |
| Newham | 62 |
| Lambeth | 55 |
| Tower Hamlets | 52 |
| Westminster | 49 |
| Greenwich | 46 |
| Lewisham | 44 |
| Redbridge | 44 |
| Croydon | 40 |
| Hackney | 39 |
| Hounslow | 39 |
| Camden | 36 |
| Ealing | 34 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 16 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 11 |
The table covers the boroughs shown in the dashboard breakdown. Measured against population, the gap stays wide: the dashboard put Hillingdon’s rate at 0.6 offences per 1,000 residents, three times the 0.2 shown for Newham, Lambeth, Tower Hamlets and Westminster.
Across London, the dashboard’s headline figure for the category was 1,207 offences in September 2026. It also showed an 8.7 per cent rise over the 12 months to September 2026 compared with the previous 12 months. That is an annual comparison, not a rise within September itself, and it should not be read as offences jumping by 8.7 per cent in a single month.
As with all police-recorded crime figures, these are offences recorded by the police, not convictions, and the breakdown on its own does not explain why Hillingdon’s count sits so far above every other borough. No reason for the gap is given in the figures themselves.
September’s Met figures have already shown sharp borough contrasts in other categories: the capital recorded 1,868 hate crime offences in the same month, with Westminster highest at 120. Hounslow, which appears in this table with 39 offences, has also been in the news this week after a councillor denied a charity fraud charge and the council lost its overall majority.
