Foreign nationals are three times more likely to be arrested for sex crimes than British citizens, according to analysis revealing the rate of crime by immigrants, published by The Telegraph.
Police made more than 9,000 arrests of foreign nationals for sexual offences in the first 10 months of last year in England and Wales.
This represented a quarter (26.1 per cent) of the total 35,000 estimated arrests for sexual offences, 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 more likely to be arrested for sexual offences than British suspects, based on a rate of nearly 165 arrests per 100,000 of the immigrant population versus 48 per 100,000 for Britons.
At the top of the table are Albanians, followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians and Somalis.
According to the ONS, foreign nationals make up 5.5 million people in Britain, while the British population is 53.5 million.
