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Arrests for notifiable offences by self-defined ethnicity
Persons arrested for notifiable offences in the latest year ending March by each of the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales, split by self-defined ethnicity with "Not stated" as its own category; each force's rows are stored against its ONS police force area code.
latest 12 months to Year ending March 2025; 1 periods summed · total 19,153 arrests
| Self-defined ethnicity | Latest 12 months | Share | Previous 12 months | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | 16,551 | 86.4% | — | — |
| Not stated | 1,278 | 6.7% | — | — |
| Black (or Black British) | 956 | 5% | — | — |
| Asian (or Asian British) | 169 | 0.9% | — | — |
| Other | 109 | 0.6% | — | — |
| Mixed | 90 | 0.5% | — | — |
Source
- Dataset
- Police powers and procedures: arrests
- Rows
- ; values are the sum of the published rows for each self-defined ethnicity and period.
- Caveat
- Regional or national totals (those rows of the table are not stored here; the England and Wales series is arrests_by_ethnicity), earlier years, or rates per head of population.
- Parent metric
- Arrests for notifiable offences
- API
- /api/metrics/arrests_by_ethnicity_by_force/vintages