Home Office · self-defined ethnicity: Asian (or Asian British)
Arrests for notifiable offences: Asian (or Asian British)
Year ending March 2025
52,076arrests
Arrests for notifiable offences for Asian (or Asian British) totalled 52,076 arrests in the period to Year ending March 2025, up 14.8% (6,698) on the period before.
Home Office dataset
A_01c
2024/25
column “Asian (or Asian British)”
52076 per period
published 19 August 2026
Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025
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What this measures
Persons arrested for notifiable offences in England and Wales in the year ending March, split by the ethnicity the arrested person gave (Asian, Black, Mixed, White, Other) with "Not stated" as its own category.
Officer-observed ethnicity (published separately in table A.01d), rates per head of population, or the offending of any group; an arrest is not a charge or a conviction.