Stop and searches leading to arrest, England and Wales
The share of stop and searches by the police in England and Wales that led to an arrest, each year to March since 2001/02, as the Home Office's police powers and procedures statistics give it.
Searches leading to arrest
15.16%
2025/26
Verified against source, 4 November 2026, 02:02 UTCSource: Home Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
25 periods, newest first
| Period | Searches leading to arrest |
|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 15.16% |
| 2024/25 | 15.07% |
| 2023/24 | 14.25% |
| 2022/23 | 13.56% |
| 2021/22 | 12.65% |
| 2020/21 | 11.37% |
| 2019/20 | 12.80% |
| 2018/19 | 15.33% |
| 2017/18 | 17.11% |
| 2016/17 | 17.07% |
| 2015/16 | 15.72% |
| 2014/15 | 13.82% |
| 2013/14 | 11.99% |
| 2012/13 | 10.40% |
| 2011/12 | 9.15% |
| 2010/11 | 8.88% |
| 2009/10 | 7.90% |
| 2008/09 | 7.82% |
| 2007/08 | 10.03% |
| 2006/07 | 10.78% |
| 2005/06 | 10.24% |
| 2004/05 | 10.37% |
| 2003/04 | 11.79% |
| 2002/03 | 12.06% |
| 2001/02 | 12.93% |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Home Office
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 4 November 2026, 01:58 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/stop-and-search-arrests-and-mental-health-detentions-march-2026SHA-256 7b06bcb1c0ae74268cc41fe97704e1d380b6d856ad2f8064d42c733737bc0e5f · 23,136 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6abbcc22f7702c86e39f51b7/stop-search-data-tables-summary-mar26.odsSHA-256 6f94c10256f7fbbe95ccbca1ac938e52e7fca9c0b2bc28978f4e56538f4eb4b8 · 349,890 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 4 November 2026, 02:02 UTC Run at 4 November 2026, 02:02 UTC; 25 of 25 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Home Office; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-04T01:58:09Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 25 of 25 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 25 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 25 of 25 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-03-31 ended 218 days before retrieval (limit 620), from Stop and search summary data tables, year ending 31 March 2026 |
| Pass | The release's bulletin agrees | 1 of 1 figures the bulletin https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/stop-and-search-arrests-and-mental-health-detentions-march-2026/police-powers-and-procedures-stop-and-search-arrests-and-mental-health-detentions-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2026 states match, each rounded half up as it rounds them |
| Pass | The rate is arrests over searches | 25 of 25 cases of SS_21's years give arrests ÷ searches × 100 as its rate, which it gives unrounded within 1e-09 (25 exactly) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Arrests following a search under any power, as a share of all searches, as Table SS_21 gives it.