Home Office · self-defined ethnicity: Other Ethnic Group

Stop and searches: Other Ethnic Group

Year ending March 2025

11,092searches

Stop and searches for Other Ethnic Group totalled 11,092 searches in the period to Year ending March 2025, up 7.5% (776) on the period before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. SS_23
  3. 2024/25
  4. column “Other Ethnic Group
  5. 11092 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 2025LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour05k10k15k2010201520202025Year ending March 2007: 7,733 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2008: 13,708 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2009: 18,487 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2010: 15,092 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2011: 15,220 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2012: 13,427 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2013: 10,402 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2014: 9,407 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2015: 5,999 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2016: 4,874 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2017: 3,918 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2018: 4,185 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2019: 5,928 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2020: 9,693 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2021: 11,473 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 8,529 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 9,447 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 10,316 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 11,092 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