Home Office · self-defined ethnicity: Asian (or Asian British)
Stop and searches: Asian (or Asian British)
Year ending March 2025
45,302searches
Stop and searches for Asian (or Asian British) totalled 45,302 searches in the period to Year ending March 2025, up 2.1% (915) on the period before.
Home Office dataset
SS_23
2024/25
column “Asian (or Asian British)”
45302 per period
published 6 November 2025
Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025
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What this measures
Stop and searches in England and Wales in the year ending March split by the self-defined ethnicity of the person searched, with vehicle-only searches and searches where ethnicity was not stated shown separately.
Rates per head of population, which the Home Office publishes separately using census populations, or officer-defined ethnicity.