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Home Office · self-defined ethnicity: Not stated / Unknown

Stop and searches: Not stated / Unknown

Year ending March 2025

94,035searches

Stop and searches for Not stated / Unknown totalled 94,035 searches in the period to Year ending March 2025, down 6.5% (6,533) on the period before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. SS_23
  3. 2024/25
  4. column “Not stated / Unknown”
  5. 94035 per period
  6. published 6 November 2025

Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025

Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicity: Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour050k100k2010201520202025Year ending March 2007: 105,670 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2008: 89,046 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2009: 85,577 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2010: 67,398 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2011: 54,595 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2012: 51,324 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2013: 46,648 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2014: 44,698 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2015: 31,223 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2016: 33,280 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2017: 30,781 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2018: 31,759 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2019: 56,303 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2020: 100,838 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2021: 132,086 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 103,196 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 109,296 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 100,568 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 94,035 searches · published 6 November 2025
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What this measures

Stop and searches in England and Wales in the year ending March split by the self-defined ethnicity of the person searched, with vehicle-only searches and searches where ethnicity was not stated shown separately.

Rates per head of population, which the Home Office publishes separately using census populations, or officer-defined ethnicity.

Source

Dataset
Police powers and procedures: stop and search
Release
Year ending March 2025, published 6 November 2025 · sha256 899831b67761ad9d…
All values
Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicity