Foreign Nationals Arrested

1) How many foreign nationals (Non-Britons) have been arrested for the following crimes:
- Murder
- Rape
- All sexual offences
- All violent offences
- Robbery
- Burglary
- Total crime

2) I want these arrest totals broken down by calendar years 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006.

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Please see FOI 2954 Foreign Nationals

Please note:
A 'foreign national' is considered to be any nominal whose nationality is not listed as English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish or British.

A person may feature more than once in any of the counts if they have been arrested on more than one occasion, as the data relates to arrests not persons.

Data is only available for the years 2008/2009/2010 as Nationality was not mandatorily recorded prior to then.

Data relates to a persons nationality as stated at time of custody record. This does not necessarily relate to a persons place of birth. It also relies on a person providing the information and as such there may be some records where offenders nationality is not recorded.

Data also relates to a persons primary reason for arrest, it does not relate to any subsequent charges that may have occurred. i.e. offender arrested for a section 18 assault. Victim subsequently dies at a later date in hospital, the offender may then be charged with murder.

Rape data also includes arrests for 'attempted rape', aiding and abetting rape', conspiring to rape.

No 'Foreign Nationals' have been primarily arrested for Murder