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Arrests for notifiable offences

Year ending March 2025 Final

754,046arrests

Arrests for notifiable offences were 754,046 arrests in the year ending March 2025, up 4.6% (32,943) from 721,103 in the year ending March 2024.

▲ 4.6% · +32,943 against Year ending March 2024 (year on year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. Year ending March 2025
  3. published 19 August 2026
  4. A.01a
  5. row “2024/25”
  6. column “Persons”
  7. cell value 754046

Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025

Arrests for notifiable offences: Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0500k1m2010201520202025Year ending March 2007: 1,474,843 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2008: 1,475,266 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2009: 1,462,139 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2010: 1,385,322 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2011: 1,353,740 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2012: 1,225,123 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2013: 1,068,823 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2014: 1,021,356 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2015: 941,692 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2016: 879,570 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2017: 762,419 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2018: 693,681 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2019: 685,176 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2020: 676,476 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2021: 646,215 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2022: 648,714 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2023: 667,799 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2024: 721,103 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2025: 754,046 arrests · published 19 August 2026
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Breakdowns

What this measures

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.

People often confuse this with

Arrest ≠ ConvictionAn arrest is a police power used on suspicion. A conviction is a court finding of guilt. Most arrests do not lead to a charge, and arrests are counted by the Home Office while convictions are counted by the Ministry of Justice on a different basis and timescale.

What this 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.

Important caveat

An arrest is a person arrested for a notifiable offence, counted each time they are arrested, as recorded by the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales in the year ending March. The figure is a measure of police activity, not of offending: it counts neither charges, prosecutions nor convictions, and many arrests lead to no further action. Some forces have revised earlier years in later publications, so totals for 2020/21 to 2023/24 differ from those first published. Derbyshire Constabulary reported arrests with an unknown offence category in 2024/25 while exploring data-quality issues.

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: arrests
Release
2026-08-19, published 19 August 2026
Source file
arrests-data-tables-summary-mar25.ods
File SHA-256
142aea7e95bcc50b16b0bd03e403ac45e782ce2284b49484f03fb222f4fa3357
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
A_01a
Table
A.01a
Row
2024/25
Column
Persons
Cell value
754046
Geography
England and Wales
Unit
arrests
API
/api/metrics/arrests_total · /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 2019–2024685,176Year ending March 2019721,103Year ending March 2024↑ 5.2%
Conservative 2017–2019762,419Year ending March 2017685,176Year ending March 2019↓ 10.1%
Conservative 2015–2017941,692Year ending March 2015762,419Year ending March 2017↓ 19.0%
Coalition 2010–20151,385,322Year ending March 2010941,692Year ending March 2015↓ 32.0%

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Release
2026-08-19 · publication page
Last updated
19 August 2026
Next release expected
November 2026 (estimated from the usual cadence)