Data shows that forty percent of suspected criminals arrested are foreign nationals in some parts of the country.
In Cambridgeshire, of the more than 21,200 arrests made between 2021 and 2023, almost 8,800 (41.5 per cent) were not UK citizens.
This despite the fact that they represent only 15 percent of the local population.
Statistics from Cambridgeshire Police, which covers cities such as Cambridge and Peterborough, suggest that foreigners living in the UK are three times more likely to be arrested on suspicion of a crime than Britons.
In the county, the average annual rate of foreign national arrests between 2021 and 2023 was 21.5 per 1,000 residents.
By comparison, MailOnline analysis suggests the equivalent rate for Brits was 6.5 per 1,000.
Other notable areas include Gloucestershire with 27.5 arrests per 1,000 foreigners compared to 8.1 per 1,000 Britons, Nottinghamshire with 31.7 for immigrants versus 10 for Brits, and Derbyshire with 32.6 versus 10.2.
The figures were obtained from 26 of 43 forces in England and Wales that responded to a Freedom of Information request from the Center for Migration Control think tank.
The other 17 forces said they could not provide the information.
The FOI asked each force how many non-British nationals, residing in the UK, their officers had arrested in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The people included in the arrest figures in each police zone do not necessarily live there, so it should be noted that the analysis does not measure the number of suspected criminals living in an area.
The figures also correspond to the number of arrests, not individuals, so if someone was arrested more than once, they will appear multiple times.
The population data for MailOnline’s analysis comes from the 2021 census, so crime rates calculated in 2022/23 will not take into account rising levels of migration.
The figures use the primary passport as an indicator of nationality, so immigrants who have become UK citizens are not counted as foreign citizens.
Our analysis has also assumed that those without passports are British citizens, as an ONS report has concluded that around 96 per cent of those without passports were born in the UK.
There were almost 760,000 arrests out of a total of 21,830,731 Britons across the 26 police forces between 2021 and 2023, or an annual average of 10.3 per 1,000 people.
This compares with more than 140,000 of 2.16 million foreigners arrested in the same period, an average of 21.7 per 1,000.
Only one of the 26 forces had lower levels of immigration arrests in all three years, Devon and Cornwall, with a rate of 7.2 per 1,000 for immigrants compared to 10 per 1,000 for Britons.
The analysis comes after Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick said the scale of crime committed by immigrants was being covered up.
The former Immigration Minister told the Telegraph last week that the public “deserved to know the truth” and pledged to publish detailed data on migrant crime if he ever became Prime Minister.
He and other supporters say the data, a version of which is published in Denmark and some U.S. states, could help strengthen visa and deportation policies for people from countries whose citizens have higher crime rates.
Public safety campaigner and former officer Rory Geoghegan told MailOnline the figures show the statistics reinforce the need for stricter immigration controls.
The founder of the Foundation for Public Safety, also a former No 10 and Home Office adviser, said: “These latest figures strengthen the case for stricter controls, limits and checks to ensure that immigration policy does not undermine the public safety”.
‘Too many foreigners, whether entering illegally or legally, commit criminal acts.
‘The minority who do so need to know that their actions will have swift and certain consequences, including expulsion.
“If the Government does not take these issues seriously and control them, then opposition parties who want to represent the mainstream in Britain must be prepared to come forward and speak out.”
“The Home Secretary would also do well to work with her colleague, the Justice Secretary, to publish much more granular data so that the true scale of these problems can be understood.”
A government spokesperson said: ‘This government is committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities.
“Foreigners who commit crimes should have no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will proceed with their deportation.”