FOI Stop & Search (0524-2022/23)

Request

I write under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act to request data on the number of stop and searches conducted by officers from this force between January 2019 and July 2022.
As part of this request, I would like the information to be broken down into the following:
1. The number of stop and searches conducted between January 2019 and July 2022, broken down into months and a grand total;
2. A breakdown of individuals stopped and searched within the requested time period by ethnic group, e.g. whether the individual was White British or Black British;
3. The number of stop and searches of that resulted in no further action, and those that resulted in an arrest, again broken down into ethnic group;

Response

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.

1. Please see the below table which shows the number of stop and searches carried out from 01.01.2019 to 30.06.2022 broken down by month and year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2019	151	162	196	242	172	171	156	169	210	235	235	199	2298
2020	289	210	201	384	419	377	315	265	262	279	313	250	3564
2021	252	285	265	236	226	151	151	151	111	164	125	125	2242
2022	167	135	218	186	154	152	-	-	-	-	-	-	1012
Total	859	792	880	1048	971	851	622	585	583	678	673	574	9116

2. Please see the below table which shows the number of stop and searches carried out from 01.01.2019 to 30.06.2022 broken down by race.

Self-defined race	Number
Not Recorded	147
A1. Indian	28
A2. Pakistani	237
A3. Bangladeshi	30
A4. Chinese	5
A9. Any other Asian background	115
B1. Caribbean	46
B2. African	73
B9. Any other Black background	42
M1. White and Black Caribbean	49
M2. White and Black African	19
M3. White and Asian	43
M9. Any other mixed	59
NS. Not stated	797
O2. Arab	2
O9. Any other	49
W1. British	7001
W2. Irish	47
W3. Gypsy or Irish Traveller	20
W9. Any other white background	307
Total	9116

3. Please see the below table which shows the number of stop and searches carried out which resulted in an arrest or no further action from 01.01.2019 to 30.06.2022 broken down by race.

Self-defined race	Arrest	No further action
A1. Indian	2	16
A2. Pakistani	38	135
A3. Bangladeshi	5	17
A4. Chinese	1	2
A9. Any other Asian background	12	77
B1. Caribbean	5	31
B2. African	6	52
B9. Any other Black background	9	25
M1. White and Black Caribbean	9	22
M2. White and Black African	2	11
M3. White and Asian	4	27
M9. Any other mixed	6	35
NS. Not stated	69	502
O9. Any other	8	30
W1. British	656	4546
W2. Irish	4	26
W3. Gypsy or Irish Traveller	4	10
W9. Any other white background	55	167
Not recorded		82
Total	895	5813

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.