CIVEA's 8 October 2026 release lists 5,896 threats-and-abuse incidents and 369 physical attacks against enforcement agents in England and Wales in 2025.⁠1 It attributes the figures to the Enforcement Conduct Board.

Bloomboff has not independently verified the underlying incident records. This analysis checks the release's category labels and arithmetic.

Dividing each annual count by 365 gives 16.15 and 1.01 per calendar day, respectively. These are averages, not a measured daily pattern or a risk per visit. Category overlap isn't established here, so we don't add the counts.

To estimate the chance that a particular visit turns violent, we'd need a matching count of visits and clear, consistent reporting rules. Dividing by days cannot supply either.

Bloomboff's take

A category label isn't a damn rounding error.