We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Analysis examining stop and search rates in the Metropolitan Police Service, for the year ending March 2021.
Statistics on arrests for recorded crime, stops and searches, breath tests and police action in relation to motoring offences.
Following the publication in November 2022 of the 2021 Census estimates including ethnicity breakdowns, this release includes updates to the ethnicity analysis previously published on 27 October 2022.
Investigation into the use of stop and search powers by the British Transport Police.
This study assesses the impact on crime of the Metropolitan Police’s Operation BLUNT 2, which ran from May 2008 to April 2011.
Code of Practice (Northern Ireland) for the authorisation and exercise of stop and search powers under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Code of practice (Northern Ireland) for the authorisation and exercise of stop and search powers relating to section 47A of schedule 6B to the Terrorism Act 2000
These reports detail findings from research into the use of Section 60 (s60) stop and search in a pilot introduced in 2019.
Code of practice for statutory powers of stop and search and requirements to record public encounters by police officers and staff.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Don’t worry we won’t send you spam or share your email address with anyone.