Stop and Searches of Females (103A/23)
Request
Please could you provide the following data relating to stop and searches carried out by West Midlands Police for each of the four years prior to the year ending March 2021:
- The numbers of females stopped and searched, broken down by ethnicity and age and reason for stop and search.
- The outcomes data (including whether the stop and search resulted in a prosecution or no further action) for all females stopped and searched, broken down by ethnicity and age and reason for stop and search.
Response
Please find attached (103A_23_attachment).
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.