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Extraordinary figures emerged at the weekend. Fresh analysis of police data suggests that foreign nationals are up to twice as likely to be arrested on suspicion of committing crime as Britons.
The arrest rate for foreign nationals averaged 22.2 per 1,000 of their population compared with 10.3 per 1,000 for British citizens holding UK passports, according to figures from 26 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales and census data.
It is the first attempt to compare arrest rates according to people’s nationality and immigration status – because the Government does not publish analysis of crime figures.
The figures are astonishing in themselves, but they are even more shocking given our current political climate. At the Tory party conference last week, leadership hopeful Robert Jenrickclaimed that there was an ‘institutional cover-up’ of the truth about the scale of crime migrants commit – and which nationalities are the …