FOI 936/24 Arrests of Illegal Migrants
Dear Sir/Madam
Enquiry Reference: 936- 24
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
Please kindly provide details of numbers of individuals stopped and searched; arrested; charged with offences who have been identified by police as being illegal entrants to the United Kingdom or have no form of identification or no fixed abode.
By illegal entrants we mean:
(1) those who entered the UK without leave or who have absconded after being granted temporary admission (these include entrants by way of airports, channel crossings or via vehicles)
(2) those who enter in breach of a deportation order;
(3) those who have secured leave by means of material deception.
The information is sought for the years from 2017 to 2024 (or latest available figures)
- No information held.
We do not record the immigration status of a person therefore the numbers of those stop searched or charged with offences cannot be determined.
The Cleveland Police response to your request is unique and it should be noted that Police Forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures to capture and record data therefore responses from Cleveland Police should not be used as a comparison with any other force response you receive.
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker