Number of police stop and searches performed in London 2006-2017

The data displays the number of stop and searches carried out by the London Metropolitan Police from fiscal year 2006/07 to fiscal year 2016/17. As The data displays, the use of this particular police power has been in decline since 2010/11 when 580698 searches were undertaken. During the most recent recording year 2016/17, stop and search had only been used 136,050 times.