The Telegraph: Albanians, the first for crimes in Great Britain

The Telegraph has revealed data on the crime rate of foreigners based on nationality. According to police arrest figures, immigrants are more than three times more likely to be arrested for sex offences than British citizens.

 Specifically, according to a report by the British newspaper, the Police have made more than 9,000 arrests of foreigners for sex offences in the first 10 months of last year, in 41 of the 43 police services in England and Wales.

This represents a quarter (26.1%) of the estimated 35,000 arrests for sexual assault, according to the first analysis by the Immigration Control Centre of data from police forces, the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

It turns out that foreign nationals were arrested almost twice as often as Britons in the first 10 months of 2024, with 23.9 arrests per 1,000 immigrants compared to 12 per 1,000 for Britons.

Overall, in crimes, Albanians rank first for arrests based on their population in the country.

Foreign nationals were 3.5 times more likely to be arrested for sexual violence than Britons, based on a rate of almost 165 arrests per 100,000 immigrant population (9,055 arrests) compared to 48 per 100,000 for Britons (25,680 arrests).

Foreign nationals make up 5.5 million people in Britain, out of a total population of 53.5 million. While foreigners make up 9% of the population, they account for 16.1% of the total number of arrests, according to figures published by FOI.

The crime ranking places Albanians as the most likely to be arrested, followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians and Somalis. There are 48 nationalities per 1,000 inhabitants who are more likely to be arrested than Britons.

For all crimes, Romanians were the most arrested with 11,678, followed by Poles with 9,583, Albanians 5,665, Indians 5,414, Pakistanis 4,171, Nigerians 3,317, Lithuanians 3,253 and Iranians with 3,000.

However, in proportion to their population, based on the latest ONS figures from 2021, Albanians had the highest arrest rate with 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 figure for British suspects was 12.

The Government also published figures on the nationality of those arrested and the nationality of foreign offenders held in British prisons, which number more than 10,000. Albanians are the largest nationality in the number of those arrested, at 13%, followed by Poles, Romanians, Irish and Jamaicans.

Robert Bates, founder and director of research at the Centre for Immigration Control, said: “There should be no foreign nationals in the UK breaking our laws. None. Yet somehow we have over 10,000 foreign nationals in Britain’s prisons, many more on probation or released into the community and a backlog of repeat offenders we cannot deport.”