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Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicity

Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicity: Year ending March 2021 to Year ending March 2025ConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0200k400k600k20212022202320242025Year ending March 2021: 714,914 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 530,970 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 547,000 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 536,217 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 528,582 searches · published 6 November 2025

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Source: Home Office, Police powers and procedures: stop and search, Year ending March 2025 (published 6 November 2025). Data presentation: Civometry.

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