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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 ethnicityLatest 12 monthsSharePrevious 12 monthsChange
White16,55186.4%
Not stated1,2786.7%
Black (or Black British)9565%
Asian (or Asian British)1690.9%
Other1090.6%
Mixed900.5%

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