Stop and Search (FOI ref: 1438/26)
Request
The number of stop and searches of people of an ethnic minority/ People of Colour.
We contacted you on 01/07/2026 to clarify the following:
Please can you clarify what time period you are requesting data for? Please could you state a start and end date in the format day/month/year to day/month/year. Additionally, are you requesting data to be broken down per year?
You responded on 01/07/2026 with the following:
To confirm, the specific dates I'm looking for are within these last 2 years - so from 01/01/24 to 01/05/26 - and yes, please may you break this data down by year.
We contacted you again on 10/07/2026 to ask the following:
Whether you are requesting ethnic groups to be separated, or provided as one total? The ethnic groups available within our data for stop and searches are: Black, Asian, Mixed, Other, White and N/A.
You responded on 13/07/2026 with the following:
Please could the data be separated.
Response
Please find our response below.
| Year | Asian | Black | Mixed | N/A | Other | White |
| 2024 | 6,532 | 4,104 | 2,066 | 469 | 300 | 9,622 |
| 2025 | 7,197 | 4,889 | 2,352 | 578 | 436 | 10,062 |
| 2026 | 2,405 | 1,480 | 856 | 187 | 163 | 3,794 |
| Total | 16,134 | 10,473 | 5,274 | 1,234 | 899 | 23,478 |
Please note that this data should be interpreted with caution. Comparing numbers of incidents/crimes can be misleading and does not necessarily indicate the likelihood of someone being a victim of crime. In addition, the number of incidents/crimes recorded in an area over a period of time can be influenced by a number of factors. Consequently statistics on incidents/crimes for one period may not necessarily be a good indicator of future incidents in that area.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of data which has relevance to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.