Accredited official statistics announcement

Police powers and procedures, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2020

Statistics on stop and search, arrests for notifiable offences, detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983, fixed penalty notices for motoring offences, breath tests, and other PACE powers.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 9 July 2020
• Last updated: 28 October 2020 — See all updates

• Release date: 27 October 2020 9:30am (confirmed)

The release date has been changed

• Previous date: 22 October 2020 9:30am
• Reason for change: Checking of data supplied by police forces has revealed some inconsistencies which has extended the time usually taken to resolve data quality issues. This means the publication of the ‘Police powers and procedures, England and Wales year ending 31 March 2020’ statistical bulletin has been delayed until to Tuesday 27th October’ to allow the completion of quality assurance.

These statistics will be released on 27 October 2020 9:30am