Police use of force statistics, England and Wales: April 2021 to March 2022

Statistics on incidents where police officers use force; including types of force, reasons, outcomes, injuries, and person details (such as age, gender and ethnicity).

Police use of force statistics, England and Wales: April 2021 to March 2022

Police use of force statistics, England and Wales: April 2021 to March 2022: data tables

Police use of force statistics, England and Wales: open data table

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The statistics on police use of force within this release cover incidents in England and Wales between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022. Data were collected from the 43 Home Office funded police forces in England and Wales.

The police use of force statistics, year ending 31 March 2022 are classified as official statistics. This is the fifth annual publication of these statistics and the second year that the experimental statistics label has been removed from the publication.

More information is available in the user guide to ‘Police use of force statistics, England and Wales’.