Stop and Search: Ethnic Groups
(asked on 4th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of stop and searches of people of each ethnic group led to an arrest in the last year for which information is available.
This question was answered on 9th May 2016
Stop and search data are published by the Home Office in the annual 'Police Powers and Procedures' bulletin. Data on the proportion of stop and search that led to an arrest in 2014/15, broken down by ethnic group, are provided in the table 1 below.
| Proportion of stops and searches that result in an arrest, by ethnic group1, England and Wales, 2014/153 | |||||||
| Ethnicity | Proportion (%) | ||||||
| White | 13 | ||||||
| Asian or Asian British | 14 | ||||||
| Black or Black British | 20 | ||||||
| Chinese/other | 17 | ||||||
| Mixed | 17 | ||||||
| All searches2 | 14 | ||||||
| Source: Police Powers and Procedures, Home Office | |||||||
| Notes: | |||||||
| 1. Based on the ethnicity given by the person being searched at the time of search. | |||||||
| 2. Includes cases where the individual did not state their ethnicity, or the ethnicity was unknown, and vehicle only searches. | |||||||
| 3. Includes searches under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, and section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. | |||||||