FOI 003781 Stop and Search (January 2019-July 2022)

Request Number: 003781/22
Date of Decision: 12 October 2022
Subject Area: Statistics
Decision: Disclosed

Request

I write under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act to request data on the number of stop and searches conducted by officers from this force between January 2019 and July 2022.

As part of this request, I would like the information to be broken down into the following:

i) The number of stop and searches conducted between January 2019 and July 2022, broken down into months and a grand total;

ii) A breakdown of individuals stopped and searched within the requested time period by ethnic group, e.g. whether the individual was White British or Black British;

iii) The number of stop and searches of that resulted in no further action, and those that resulted in an arrest, again broken down into ethnic group;

Reply

i)

Years / Months	Count of Date of Stop/Search
2019	3188
Jan	243
Feb	246
Mar	290
Apr	301
May	263
Jun	257
Jul	248
Aug	274
Sep	265
Oct	286
Nov	223
Dec	292
2020	3314
Jan	228
Feb	187
Mar	228
Apr	419
May	405
Jun	346
Jul	264
Aug	187
Sep	217
Oct	275
Nov	265
Dec	293
2021	3107
Jan	245
Feb	274
Mar	336
Apr	333
May	329
Jun	227
Jul	196
Aug	249
Sep	212
Oct	248
Nov	226
Dec	232
2022	1718
Jan	244
Feb	199
Mar	190
Apr	241
May	264
Jun	302
Jul	278
Grand Total	11327

ii)

Type of Ethnicity	2019	2020	2021	2022	Grand Total
1. White - North European	2572	2510	2583	1437	9102
0. Unknown	204	261	115	53	633
N/A	103	137	152	74	466
3. Black	109	160	107	48	424
2. White - South European	144	129	77	48	398
4. Asian	46	73	53	43	215
6. Middle Eastern	8	37	15	15	75
5. Chinese,Japanese, SE Asian	2	7	5	-	14
Grand Total	3188	3314	3107	1718	11327

iii)

Row Labels	2019	2020	2021	2022	Grand Total
Arrest	366	278	257	136	1037
0. Unknown	4	9	3	1	17
1. White - North European	323	240	214	116	893
2. White - South European	9	8	9	2	28
3. Black	17	14	16	4	51
4. Asian	12	5	5	7	29
5. Chinese,Japanese,SE Asian	-	1	-	-	1
6. Middle Eastern	-	1	1	1	3
N/A	1	-	9	5	15
No further action	2403	2581	2489	1386	8859
0. Unknown	170	217	100	45	532
1. White - North European	1942	1938	2097	1167	7144
2. White - South European	117	105	59	41	322
3. Black	82	136	80	38	336
4. Asian	31	61	40	30	162
5. Chinese,Japanese, SE Asian	2	5	4	-	11
6. Middle Eastern	5	30	13	13	61
N/A	54	89	96	52	291
Grand Total	2769	2859	2746	1522	9896

Please also be aware that Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the recording criteria is set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the crime data. It should be noted that for these reasons this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.

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