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Stop and search and arrests, year ending March 2023 (second edition)

Statistics on stop and search, arrests for notifiable offences.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 26 September 2023
• Last updated: 14 March 2024
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  1. 14 March 2024

     A second edition of these statistics has been published on 14 March 2024 to reflect the resubmission of data by 2 police forces following the initial publication in September 2023. The statistical bulletin and all associated data tables accompanying this release have been updated to reflect these revisions. Following the first publication of this release, Dorset Police found an error in the year ending March 2023 stop and search data they initially supplied to the Home Office. This error caused their data on the self-defined ethnicity of persons stopped and searched in the year ending March 2023 to be misreported. The total number of stop and searches in England and Wales has also been revised down by 1 because of this re-submission. North Wales were also previously unable to identify the primary reason for arrest and were reporting all offences as separate arrests. Following the first edition of this publication in September 2023, North Wales revised their March 2022 and March 2023 data to provide primary reason for arrest only. This revised data led to decreases of 53% in their number of arrests in each year and a decrease in the number of arrests in England and Wales of 1.2% each year. All breakdowns by protected characteristics and reason for arrest have also been updated accordingly.

  2. 6 November 2023

     Updated 'Arrests open data tables: police powers and procedures, year ending 31 March 2023'. Removed 'Arrests open data tables: police powers and procedures, year ending 31 March 2023: without pivot tables' as table no longer required after update.

  3. 26 September 2023

     First published.

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Police powers and procedures: Stop and search and arrests, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2023 (second edition)

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Stop and search summary data tables: police powers and procedures, year ending 31 March 2023 (second edition)

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Stop and search open data tables, year ending 31 March 2021 to year ending 31 March 2023 (second edition)

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Stop and search open data tables, year ending 31 March 2007 to year ending 31 March 2020

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Stop and search outcomes summary data tables: police powers and procedures, year ending 31 March 2023 (second edition)

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Stop and search outcomes open data tables, year ending 31 March 2017 to year ending 31 March 2020

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Arrest summary data tables: police powers and procedures, year ending 31 March 2023 (second edition)

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Arrests open data tables: police powers and procedures, year ending 31 March 2023 (second edition)

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Stop and search experimental data query tool (second edition)

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Stop and search - ethnic disparity time series dashboard (second edition)

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Exploration of an alternative approach to calculating stop and search rates in the Metropolitan Police Force Area – Experimental Statistics.

Statistics on stop and search, arrests for notifiable offences.

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