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Home Office · self-defined ethnicity: Black (or Black British)

Arrests for notifiable offences: Black (or Black British)

Year ending March 2025

46,616arrests

Arrests for notifiable offences for Black (or Black British) totalled 46,616 arrests in the period to Year ending March 2025, up 16.8% (6,705) on the period before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. A_01c
  3. 2024/25
  4. column “Black (or Black British)”
  5. 46616 per period
  6. published 19 August 2026

Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025

Arrests for notifiable offences by self-defined ethnicity: Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour050k100k2010201520202025Before: People who identify as Chinese counted in the Other group. After: People who identify as Chinese counted in the Asian (or Asian British) group.definition changeYear ending March 2007: 105,145 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2008: 109,206 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2009: 111,271 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2010: 110,977 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2011: 113,085 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2012: 102,326 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2013: 88,540 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2014: 86,245 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2015: 83,344 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2016: 81,895 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2017: 70,944 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2018: 64,870 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2019: 60,307 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2020: 58,502 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2021: 54,601 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2022: 51,174 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2023: 49,096 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2024: 39,911 arrests · published 19 August 2026Year ending March 2025: 46,616 arrests · published 19 August 2026
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What this measures

Persons arrested for notifiable offences in England and Wales in the year ending March, split by the ethnicity the arrested person gave (Asian, Black, Mixed, White, Other) with "Not stated" as its own category.

Officer-observed ethnicity (published separately in table A.01d), rates per head of population, or the offending of any group; an arrest is not a charge or a conviction.

Source

Dataset
Police powers and procedures: arrests
Release
2026-08-19, published 19 August 2026 · sha256 142aea7e95bcc50b…
All values
Arrests for notifiable offences by self-defined ethnicity