Arrests by Nationality (1745A/23)
Request
Original request which was refused on cost grounds:
Q1. How many alleged offences have been recorded as crimes committed by individuals in
2022/23?
Q2. How many alleged offences have been recorded as crimes committed by people of different nationalities (e.g. non-UK nationals (or country of birth is not the UK, or non-UK citizens etc)
in your force area 2022/23?
Q3. If possible could you provide a breakdown of these crimes and the countries these
individuals are from?
Q4. How many alleged offences have been recorded as crimes committed by individuals in
2021/22?
Q5. How many alleged offences have been recorded as crimes committed by people of different nationalities (e.g. non-UK nationals (or country of birth is not the UK, or non-UK citizens etc) in your force area 2021/22?
Q6. If possible could you provide a breakdown of these crimes and the countries these
individuals are from?
Q7. How many alleged offences have been recorded as crimes committed by individuals in
2020/21?
Q8. How many alleged offences have been recorded as crimes committed by people of different nationalities (e.g. non-UK nationals (or country of birth is not the UK, or non-UK citizens etc) in your force area 2020/21?
Q9. If possible could you provide a breakdown of these crimes and the countries these
individuals are from?
Refined request:
Arrest data broken down by nationality for each financial year between 2020/21 and 2022/23.
Response
Please find attached our response (1745A_Attachment).
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.