Home Office · ODS · annual · England and Wales
Police use of force statistics, England and Wales
Official statistics (not accredited) for years ending March from 2020/21, the 43 Home Office forces plus British Transport Police. The April 2024 to March 2025 tables were reissued as a second edition on 4 June 2026 with Derbyshire's revised data. Table 1 carries the total number of reports; Table 4a the split by ethnicity, with "Not reported" shown separately.
- Official page
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-use-of-force-statistics
- Authority
- First-party official statistics · OGL-UK-3.0
- Latest release
- 2026-08-19, published 19 August 2026
- Next expected
- December 2026 (April 2025 to March 2026) (estimated)
- Extractor
- ingest/ukdata/extractors/ho_arrests_use_of_force.py
Metrics read from this publication
| Metric | Sheet · table | Row label | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Police use of force reports | Table_1 · Table 1 | Total number of reports | reports |
| Police use of force reports by self-defined or officer-perceived ethnicitybreakdown by self-defined or officer-perceived ethnicity | Table_4a · Table 4a | period | reports |
Releases ingested
| Published | Release | Observations | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2026 | 2026-08-19 | 40 | police-use-of-force-apr2024-mar2025-tables-second-edition.ods sha256 ce4a1abbca2dc966… |