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Accredited official statistics: Stop and search, arrests, and mental health detentions, March 2026

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Home Office responsible statistician: Jodie Hargreaves

1.1 Overview of Police powers and procedures statistical bulletins

Prior to September 2024, the ‘Police powers and procedures’ statistical bulletin was published as 2 reports. Given the volume and variety of topics covered, a decision has been made to split the release into 3 separate statistical bulletins, with an additional bulletin on police protests powers (totalling 4 bulletins).

This release is the first of the now 4 annual publications on police powers and contains statistics on the use of the powers of stop and search, arrest and detentions under the Mental Health Act by the police in England and Wales, up to the year ending 31 March 2026.

Stop and search statistics contain information from the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales, and the British Transport Police (BTP), including data on the:

  • change in the use of stop and search in the years ending March 2025 and March 2026
  • number of stop and searches carried out under a range of legislative powers, including; section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and associated legislation, section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, section 47A (previously section 44) of the Terrorism Act 2000, section 11 of the Public Order Act 2023 and section 342E of the Sentencing Act 2020
  • weapons found from stop and search, including analysis on type of weapon found (that is, bladed article, firearm, other offensive weapon)
  • ethnicity, sex and age of persons searched
  • analysis of where stop and searches take place within police force areas (also referred to as ‘hotspot analysis’)
  • whether force was used in a stop and search, including new analysis on the type of force used
  • analysis on the amount of clothing removed from persons searched
  • analysis on whether an outcome was linked by ethnic group

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