Immigration Status of arrested individuals 2018-2025
Date of request: 3 November 2025
Reference: 1690960
Request
Please provide data on the number of individuals arrested in your force area
between 2018 – 2025, per year, where their immigration status was recorded as
‘illegal’, ‘refugee’, ‘irregular’, ‘undocumented’, ‘asylum seeker’, or ‘failed asylum
seeker’ and total number of arrests.
Response
A person’s immigration status can only be officially confirmed by the Home Office.
The information provided below is based on information recorded by officers based
on information available at the time of processing.
The terms provided in your request have been searched against the immigration
statuses available for use within our custody recording system. I have provided
terms identified below for clarity.
| Term provided | Match Found |
| ‘illegal’ | ‘illegal immigrant’, ‘illegal entry’ |
| ‘refugee’ | ‘Refugee’, ‘refugee claimant’ |
| ‘irregular’ | none |
| ‘undocumented’ | none |
| ‘asylum seeker’ | ‘asylum seeker’, ‘granted asylum’ |
| ‘failed asylum seeker’ | ‘failed asylum seeker (ILT)’ |
Please find the requested information in the table below. A person may have been given more than one immigration status.
| Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Sum |
| Count of people | 138 | 134 | 90 | 95 | 93 | 147 | 149 | 127 | 973 |