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Police use of force reports by self-defined or officer-perceived ethnicity
Use of force reports in England and Wales in the year ending March split by the ethnicity of the person involved, self-defined where given and otherwise as perceived by the officer, with "Not reported" as its own category.
latest 12 months to Year ending March 2025; 1 periods summed · total 812,447 reports · published 19 August 2026
| Self-defined or officer-perceived ethnicity | Latest 12 months | Share | Previous 12 months | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | 607,558 | 74.8% | 544,231 | ▲ 11.6% |
| Black (or Black British) | 93,388 | 11.5% | 88,160 | ▲ 5.9% |
| Asian (or Asian British) | 59,786 | 7.4% | 51,054 | ▲ 17.1% |
| Mixed | 22,890 | 2.8% | 19,385 | ▲ 18.1% |
| Other | 21,773 | 2.7% | 17,652 | ▲ 23.3% |
| Not reported | 7,052 | 0.9% | 26,914 | ▼ 73.8% |
Source
- Dataset
- Police use of force statistics, England and Wales · sheet Table_4a
- Rows
- 2024/25; values are the sum of the published rows for each self-defined or officer-perceived ethnicity and period.
- Caveat
- Rates per head of population (the Home Office publishes its own in Table 15), the severity of force, or anything about the offending of the person involved.
- Parent metric
- Police use of force reports
- API
- /api/metrics/use_of_force_by_ethnicity/vintages