Who gets stopped and searched

Six months of Metropolitan Police stop and search, by how people described themselves.

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SeriesPeriod or categoryValueUnit
Asian/Asian British2025-0110.37% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-0210.35% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-039.75% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-049.83% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-0510.39% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-0610.15% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-0710.76% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-088.84% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-0910.71% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-1010.42% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-1110.6% of searches
Asian/Asian British2025-1211.6% of searches
Asian/Asian British2026-0110.84% of searches
Asian/Asian British2026-0210.02% of searches
Asian/Asian British2026-0411.51% of searches
Asian/Asian British2026-0510.45% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-0124.24% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-0223.57% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-0323.94% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-0423.84% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-0524.52% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-0625.72% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-0724.59% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-0827.6% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-0924.72% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-1024.04% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-1124.18% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2025-1223.54% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2026-0124% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2026-0223.85% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2026-0425.8% of searches
Black/African/Caribbean/Black British2026-0518.06% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-014.3% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-024.95% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-035.1% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-044.92% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-055.01% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-064.69% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-074.97% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-084.33% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-095.1% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-105.05% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-114.23% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2025-124.58% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2026-014.82% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2026-025.28% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2026-045.18% of searches
Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups2026-055.06% of searches
Not stated2025-011.69% of searches
Not stated2025-021.47% of searches
Not stated2025-031.39% of searches
Not stated2025-041.61% of searches
Not stated2025-051.71% of searches
Not stated2025-061.31% of searches
Not stated2025-071.26% of searches
Not stated2025-081.18% of searches
Not stated2025-091.44% of searches
Not stated2025-101.69% of searches
Not stated2025-111.34% of searches
Not stated2025-121.85% of searches
Not stated2026-011.85% of searches
Not stated2026-021.6% of searches
Not stated2026-041.32% of searches
Not stated2026-0511.71% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-0134.12% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-0233.64% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-0332.2% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-0434.26% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-0533.2% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-0632.5% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-0732.47% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-0837.63% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-0932.67% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-1033.55% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-1134.29% of searches
Other ethnic group2025-1232.65% of searches
Other ethnic group2026-0132.7% of searches
Other ethnic group2026-0231.3% of searches
Other ethnic group2026-0430.29% of searches
Other ethnic group2026-0528.97% of searches
White2025-0125.28% of searches
White2025-0226.02% of searches
White2025-0327.63% of searches
White2025-0425.53% of searches
White2025-0525.17% of searches
White2025-0625.63% of searches
White2025-0725.96% of searches
White2025-0820.42% of searches
White2025-0925.35% of searches
White2025-1025.25% of searches
White2025-1125.35% of searches
White2025-1225.78% of searches
White2026-0125.77% of searches
White2026-0227.95% of searches
White2026-0425.9% of searches
White2026-0525.75% of searches

Methodology

Metropolitan Police stop-and-search records over the last six published months, grouped by self-defined ethnicity. The self-defined field is recorded as 'Group - Detail'; the group is used because the detail splits into dozens of slivers too small to read. Shares are of all searches in the period, not of population — the comparison against London's demography is left to the reader rather than asserted here.

Provenance

Source
Police.uk
Cadence
monthly
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Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0

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