Stop and searches England and Wales 2023

The police in England and Wales performed 547,003 stop and searches in 2022/23, compared with 530,970 in the previous year. Between 2008/09 and 2017/18 the amount of stop and searches had been decreasing, but have increased in every subsequent year up to 2021/22.

Number of stop and searches performed by the police in England and Wales from 2001/02 to 2022/23

Characteristic	Number of stop and searches
2022/23	547,003
2021/22	530,970
2020/21	714,914
2019/20*	586,645
2018/19	385,154
2017/18	282,380
2016/17	304,132
2015/16	383,595
2014/15	541,144
2013/14	904,038
2012/13	1,017,542
2011/12	1,189,882
2010/11	1,303,540
2009/10	1,405,985
2008/09	1,519,561
2007/08	1,233,208
2006/07	1,050,438
2005/06	974,998
2004/05	940,118
2003/04	823,678
2002/03	971,735
2001/02	770,100

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Release date

September 2023

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Region

United Kingdom (England, Wales)

Survey time period

April 1, 2001 to March 31, 2023

Supplementary notes

This statistic is using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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