Home Office · ODS · annual · England and Wales
Police powers and procedures: stop and search
Accredited official statistics for years ending March, published in the autumn. The summary tables give all stop and searches under section 1 PACE, section 60, sections 44/47A, section 342E and section 11 (SS_01, SS_21) and the breakdown by self-defined ethnicity (SS_23). British Transport Police is included from 2009/10.
- Official page
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales
- Authority
- First-party official statistics · OGL-UK-3.0
- Latest release
- Year ending March 2025, published 6 November 2025
- Next expected
- Autumn 2026 (year ending March 2026) (estimated)
- Extractor
- ingest/ukdata/extractors/ho_police_powers.py
Metrics read from this publication
| Metric | Sheet · table | Row label | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stop and searches | SS_21 · SS_21 | period | searches |
| Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicitybreakdown by self-defined ethnicity | SS_23 · SS_23 | period | searches |
| Stop and search arrest rate | SS_21 · SS_21 | period | percent |
Releases ingested
| Published | Release | Observations | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 November 2025 | Year ending March 2025 | 200 | stop-search-data-tables-summary-mar25.ods sha256 899831b67761ad9d… |