Arrests for notifiable offences during the Coalition 2010–2015 government
Year ending March 2010 → Year ending March 2015 · 5 periods
↓ 32.0%−443,630 arrests
Arrests for notifiable offences fell by 32.0% over the period, from 1,385,322 arrests (Year ending March 2010, the level when the government took office) to 941,692 (Year ending March 2015, the last complete period before it left office).
Inherited level Year ending March 2010: 1,385,322
Level when it left Year ending March 2015: 941,692
method: latest complete period before start / before end
Changes during this period do not by themselves show what the government caused. Statistics reflect many influences, including earlier decisions, the economy and how the data is collected.
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Definition and caveats
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.
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.