Stop and searches England and Wales by police force 2024

In 2023/24, the Metropolitan Police in London performed 137,055 stop and searches, by far the most of any police force in England and Wales. Merseyside Police, the police force responsible for the city of Liverpool, performed 50,456 stop and searches in this year, the second-highest in England and Wales.

Number of stop and searches performed by the police in England and Wales in 2023/24, by police force area

Characteristic	Number of police stop and searches
Metropolitan Police (London)	137,055
Merseyside	50,456
Greater Manchester	45,851
West Midlands	26,956
West Yorkshire	19,263
Lancashire	18,152
Essex	16,830
Thames Valley	16,259
British Transport Police	15,727
Kent	13,644
Cheshire	13,394
Hampshire	12,368
South Yorkshire	12,292
Cleveland	8,993
Northumbria	8,756
Cumbria	8,314
Sussex	6,689
Hertfordshire	6,479
Avon and Somerset	6,131
Leicestershire	6,096
Devon and Cornwall	6,092
Staffordshire	5,668
South Wales	5,400
Humberside	5,227
Surrey	5,181
Dyfed-Powys	4,971
West Mercia	4,483
Northamptonshire	4,402
Nottinghamshire	4,321
Bedfordshire	4,296
Lincolnshire	3,335
Durham	3,150
North Yorkshire	3,112
North Wales	3,004
Norfolk	2,945
Cambridgeshire	2,805
Suffolk	2,736
Derbyshire	2,643
Gwent	2,455
London, City of	2,427
Gloucestershire	2,146
Dorset	1,944
Wiltshire	1,560
Warwickshire	1,299

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Release date

September 2024

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024

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

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