Arrests for notifiable offences during the Conservative 2015–2017 government
Year ending March 2015 → Year ending March 2017 · 2 periods
↓ 19.0%−179,273 arrests
Arrests for notifiable offences fell by 19.0% over the period, from 941,692 arrests (Year ending March 2015, the level when the government took office) to 762,419 (Year ending March 2017, the last complete period before it left office).
Inherited level Year ending March 2015: 941,692
Level when it left Year ending March 2017: 762,419
method: latest complete period before start / before end
Changes during this period do not by themselves show what the government caused. Statistics reflect many influences, including earlier decisions, the economy and how the data is collected.
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Definition and caveats
The number of persons arrested for notifiable offences by the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales in the year ending March, each arrest counted once.
Doesn’t measure: Charges, prosecutions or convictions, arrests by British Transport Police, or arrests for non-notifiable offences; a person arrested twice is counted twice.