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Stop and search arrest rate

Year ending March 2025 Final

14.9%

Stop and search arrest rate was 14.9% in the year ending March 2025, up 0.7 percentage points from 14.2% in the year ending March 2024.

▲ +0.7 percentage points against Year ending March 2024 (year on year)

  1. Home Office percentage
  2. Year ending March 2025
  3. published 6 November 2025
  4. SS_21
  5. row “2024/25”
  6. column “Arrest rate (%)”
  7. cell value 14.897593940013094

The series is rising. Rule: up 5.1% from Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2025.

Year ending March 2002 to Year ending March 2025

Stop and search arrest rate: Year ending March 2002 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0%5%10%15%20052010201520202025Year ending March 2002: 12.9% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2003: 12.1% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2004: 11.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2005: 10.4% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2006: 10.2% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2007: 10.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2008: 10% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2009: 7.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2010: 7.9% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2011: 8.9% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2012: 9.2% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2013: 10.4% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2014: 12% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2015: 13.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2016: 15.7% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2017: 17.1% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2018: 17.1% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2019: 15.3% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2020: 12.8% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2021: 11.4% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 12.6% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 13.6% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 14.2% percent · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 14.9% percent · published 6 November 2025
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What this measures

The percentage of stop and searches in England and Wales in the year ending March that resulted in an arrest, as published by the Home Office.

What this doesn’t measure

Other outcomes such as community resolutions, penalty notices or cautions, or whether the arrest was linked to the reason for the search.

Important caveat

Stop and search counts cover section 1 of PACE and associated legislation, section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, sections 44 and 47A of the Terrorism Act 2000, section 342E of the Sentencing Act 2020 and section 11 of the Public Order Act 2023, and include vehicle- only searches. British Transport Police data are included from 2009/10, so earlier years are not directly comparable. The arrest rate is the number of resultant arrests as a proportion of searches, as calculated by the Home Office, and does not indicate whether the arrest related to the reason for the search.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Home Office
Publication
Police powers and procedures: stop and search
Release
Year ending March 2025, published 6 November 2025
Source file
stop-search-data-tables-summary-mar25.ods
File SHA-256
899831b67761ad9d864a764bfde474b09b143956a08f889bb5dce30f2ecd276b
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
SS_21
Table
SS_21
Row
2024/25
Column
Arrest rate (%)
Cell value
14.897593940013094
Geography
England and Wales
Unit
percent
API
/api/metrics/stop_search_arrest_rate · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Conservative 2019–202415.3%Year ending March 201914.2%Year ending March 2024↓ 7.5%
Conservative 2017–201917.1%Year ending March 201715.3%Year ending March 2019↓ 10.2%
Conservative 2015–201713.8%Year ending March 201517.1%Year ending March 2017↑ 23.5%
Coalition 2010–20157.9%Year ending March 201013.8%Year ending March 2015↑ 74.9%
Labour 2005–201010.4%Year ending March 20057.9%Year ending March 2010↓ 23.8%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Year ending March 2025 · publication page
Last updated
6 November 2025
Next release expected
November 2026 (estimated from the usual cadence)