Foreigners three times as likely to be arrested for sex offences as British citizens
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Foreigners three times as likely to be arrested for sex offences as British citizens. Crime league table puts Albanians as nationality most likely to be arrested, followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians, Moroccans and Somalians.
Foreign nationals are more than three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences as British citizens, according to the first analysis revealing the scale of crime by migrants.
Police made more than 9,000 arrests of foreign nationals for sexual offences in the first 10 months of last year in 41 of the 43 forces in England and Wales.
This represented a quarter (26.1 per cent) of the total estimated 35,000 sexual offence arrests, according to the first analysis of its kind by the Centre for Migration Control of data from police forces, the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Foreigners were 3.5 times as likely to be arrested for sex offences as British suspects, based on a rate of nearly 165 arrests per 100,000 of the migrant population against 48 per 100,000 for Britons.
For all crimes, foreign nationals were arrested at twice the rate of British natives, accounting for 131,000 of the arrests from January to October 2024.
While foreigners make up nine per cent of the population, they accounted for 16.1 per cent of the total number of arrests according to the figures, released under freedom of information (FOI) laws.
The crime league table places Albanians as the nationality most likely to be arrested, followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians and Somalians. There were 48 nationalities with a higher arrest rate per 1,000 of their populations than British suspects.
According to the analysis, foreign nationals were arrested at almost twice the rate of British people in the first 10 months of 2024, with 23.9 arrests per 1000 for migrants compared with 12 per 1000 for Britons. For sex offence arrests, the rate rose to 3.5.
Foreign nationals account for 5.5 million people in Britain, according to the ONS, while the British population is 53.5 million.
The 9,055 foreign national arrests for sex offences works out at a rate of 164.6 per 100,000 of the population, compared with 25,680 arrests of Britons – a rate of 48 per 100,000.
Some forces recorded higher rates of arrests of foreign nationals for sexual offences. In the City of London, they accounted for two-thirds (66.9 per cent) of the arrests. The Metropolitan Police recorded 39.2 per cent, while in Derbyshire it was 44.8 per cent and in the West Midlands 38.8 per cent.
The FOI data for arrests for rapes, which was only available from 29 of the 43 forces in England and Wales, show there were 2,775 arrests of foreign nationals for the offence.
For all crimes, Romanians accounted for the most arrests at 11,678 followed by Poles (9583), Albanians (5,665), Indians (5,414), Pakistanis (4,171), Nigerians (3,317), Lithuanians (3,253) and Iranians (3,000).
However, once weighted for the respective populations, based on the latest ONS figures from 2021, Albanians had the highest arrest rate at 209.8 arrests per 1,000 of their population followed by Afghans (106.9), Iraqis (92.9), Algerians (72.7), Moroccans (70) and Somalis (64.6). The rate for British suspects was 12.
The Government publishes data on the ethnicity of people arrested and the nationalities of foreign offenders held in UK jails of which there are more than 10,000. Albanians are the largest nationality, accounting for 13 per cent, followed by Poles, Romanians, Irish and Jamaican.
Robert Bates, the founder and research director of the Centre for Migration Control, said: “There should not be a single foreign national in the UK who is breaking our laws. Not one. Yet we somehow have over 10,000 foreign nationals in Britain’s prisons, many more on probation or released into the community, and a merry-go-round of repeat offenders that we are unable to deport.'
In 2024, foreign nationals were arrested at twice the rate of British people, with over 130,000 detentions, this is despite them accounting for just nine per cent of the population. Violent crime was by far the most common offence type committed, but we must give special focus to the fact that over a quarter of all sexual offence arrests last year were of non-British citizens – and over a third of these were for rape, including those under the age of 13.
Other crimes committed within this category were sexual assault, child grooming, trafficking and voyeurism.