Home Office · self-defined or officer-perceived ethnicity: Black (or Black British)
Police use of force reports: Black (or Black British)
Year ending March 2025
93,388reports
Police use of force reports for Black (or Black British) totalled 93,388 reports in the period to Year ending March 2025, up 5.9% (5,228) on the period before.
- Home Office dataset
- Table_4a
- 2024/25
- column “Black (or Black British)”
- 93388 per period
- published 19 August 2026
Year ending March 2021 to Year ending March 2025
What this measures
Use of force reports in England and Wales in the year ending March split by the ethnicity of the person involved, self-defined where given and otherwise as perceived by the officer, with "Not reported" as its own category.
Rates per head of population (the Home Office publishes its own in Table 15), the severity of force, or anything about the offending of the person involved.
Source
- Dataset
- Police use of force statistics, England and Wales
- Release
- 2026-08-19, published 19 August 2026 · sha256 ce4a1abbca2dc966…
- All values
- Police use of force reports by self-defined or officer-perceived ethnicity