The extremes of stop and searches as published by Home Office, across the 24 periods held here (Year ending March 2002 to Year ending March 2025). Each record is a published figure, not a computed one, and the scope is this series — not “ever”.
The latest figure, 528,582 in Year ending March 2025, is the lowest since Year ending March 2019, when it was 385,154 — every period between was higher. The rule: a period counts as beaten only when its figure is strictly above the latest, and the claim is only made when it reaches back at least five years.
Highest published
1,519,561Year ending March 2009
Lowest published
282,380Year ending March 2018
The full series
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A record is the extreme of the periods this site holds for the current series, at each period’s newest published release. Earlier series measured under different methods are not compared against it. Money is in cash terms: a record set years ago stands against the money of its own year.