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Home Office · self-defined ethnicity: Vehicle only search

Stop and searches: Vehicle only search

Year ending March 2025

18,617searches

Stop and searches for Vehicle only search totalled 18,617 searches in the period to Year ending March 2025, up 6.9% (1,194) on the period before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. SS_23
  3. 2024/25
  4. column “Vehicle only search”
  5. 18617 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 2025LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour010k20k2010201520202025Year ending March 2007: 12,703 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2008: 18,515 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2009: 24,182 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2010: 14,906 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2011: 11,226 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2012: 6,883 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2013: 7,445 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2014: 6,875 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2015: 5,475 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2016: 5,228 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2017: 4,904 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2018: 4,872 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2019: 8,043 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2020: 13,092 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2021: 17,704 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 14,711 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 17,528 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 17,423 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 18,617 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