Arrests for notifiable offences during the Conservative 2019–2024 government
Year ending March 2019 → Year ending March 2024 · 5 periods
↑ 5.2%+35,927 arrests
Arrests for notifiable offences rose by 5.2% over the period, from 685,176 arrests (Year ending March 2019, the level when the government took office) to 721,103 (Year ending March 2024, the last complete period before it left office).
Inherited level Year ending March 2019: 685,176
Level when it left Year ending March 2024: 721,103
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.