Stop and searches and arrests, England and Wales
Stop and searches by the police in England and Wales under each power and in all, and the arrests that followed them, each year to March since 2001/02, from the Home Office's police powers and procedures statistics.
Stop and searches
586,591
2025/26 · 88,944 arrests followed
Verified against source, 4 November 2026, 02:02 UTC- Section 1 (PACE and other)
- Section 60
- Section 44/47A
- Section 342E
- Section 11
- All stop and searches
- Arrests following a search
Source: Home Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
25 periods, newest first
| Period | Section 1 (PACE and other) | Section 60 | Section 44/47A | Section 342E | Section 11 | All stop and searches | Arrests following a search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 580,068 | 6,340 | 0 | 182 | 1 | 586,591 | 88,944 |
| 2024/25 | 523,177 | 5,580 | 0 | 294 | 46 | 529,097 | 79,742 |
| 2023/24 | 531,556 | 5,288 | 0 | 63 | 3 | 536,910 | 76,499 |
| 2022/23 | 542,720 | 4,280 | 0 | – | – | 547,000 | 74,181 |
| 2021/22 | 526,629 | 4,341 | 0 | – | – | 530,970 | 67,163 |
| 2020/21 | 705,912 | 9,002 | 0 | – | – | 714,914 | 81,277 |
| 2019/20 | 568,543 | 18,102 | 0 | – | – | 586,645 | 75,108 |
| 2018/19 | 371,739 | 13,415 | 0 | – | – | 385,154 | 59,055 |
| 2017/18 | 279,728 | 2,503 | 149 | – | – | 282,380 | 48,313 |
| 2016/17 | 303,501 | 631 | 0 | – | – | 304,132 | 51,916 |
| 2015/16 | 382,625 | 970 | 0 | – | – | 383,595 | 60,288 |
| 2014/15 | 540,083 | 1,061 | 0 | – | – | 541,144 | 74,800 |
| 2013/14 | 900,129 | 3,909 | 0 | – | – | 904,038 | 108,351 |
| 2012/13 | 1,012,196 | 5,346 | 0 | – | – | 1,017,542 | 105,826 |
| 2011/12 | 1,142,909 | 46,973 | 0 | – | – | 1,189,882 | 108,875 |
| 2010/11 | 1,229,324 | 62,429 | 11,787 | – | – | 1,303,540 | 115,729 |
| 2009/10 | 1,177,327 | 119,973 | 108,685 | – | – | 1,405,985 | 111,116 |
| 2008/09 | 1,159,374 | 150,174 | 210,013 | – | – | 1,519,561 | 118,769 |
| 2007/08 | 1,053,001 | 53,501 | 126,706 | – | – | 1,233,208 | 123,718 |
| 2006/07 | 962,897 | 44,707 | 42,834 | – | – | 1,050,438 | 113,256 |
| 2005/06 | 888,675 | 36,276 | 50,047 | – | – | 974,998 | 99,877 |
| 2004/05 | 861,500 | 41,600 | 37,000 | – | – | 940,100 | 97,482 |
| 2003/04 | 749,400 | 40,400 | 33,800 | – | – | 823,600 | 97,138 |
| 2002/03 | 895,300 | 44,400 | 32,100 | – | – | 971,800 | 117,179 |
| 2001/02 | 741,000 | 18,900 | 10,200 | – | – | 770,100 | 99,577 |
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; 175 of 175 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Home Office; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-04T01:58:16Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 175 of 175 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 175 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 175 of 175 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 | 2 of 2 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 powers add up to all stop and searches | 25 of 25 cases of SS_01's years, its powers sum to its total, exactly or, in years given to hundreds, within half a hundred for each figure |
| Pass | SS_21's searches equal SS_01's | 25 of 25 cases of SS_21's years give SS_01's total |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and associated legislation (drugs, firearms, stolen property and offensive weapons) needs reasonable grounds for suspicion; section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 does not, where an officer of inspector rank or above has authorised it for an area. Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 was replaced by section 47A in 2011; section 342E of the Sentencing Act 2020 (serious violence reduction orders) and section 11 of the Public Order Act 2023 began in 2023/24. A blank is a year the power did not exist.
- Figures before 2005/06 are given to the nearest hundred. Arrests are those following a search under any power, as Table SS_21 gives them, not every arrest the police make.