Use of stop and search in England and Wales fell from a peak of 1.5 million in 2008/09 to around 304,000 in 2016/17. Initially, that reduction mirrored a more general decline in crime.

Police guidelines suggest that stop and search is primarily intended to be used as a tool to investigate crime, rather than to stop it in the first place. Looking at how stop and search has been used ...

The use of stop and search by the Metropolitan Police has not always been professional. That was the admission by Bernard Hogan-Howe, its commissioner, who has ordered a radical overhaul of the ...

The UK's largest police force is to radically overhaul its use of stop and search, a controversial tactic that some say was an aggravating factor behind last year's England riots. But why has the ...

Police guidelines suggest that stop and search is primarily intended to be used as a tool to investigate crime, rather than to stop it in the first place. Looking at how stop and search has been used ...

For example, a 2016 study found that a stop-and-search operation in some London boroughs had no effect on police-recorded knife crime.

The other powers that the police possess to stop and search members of the public (for example, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 or PACE), require officers to have a reasonable suspicion ...

The increases in stop and search during 2020-21 continue to yield the same results as years past – targeting black people and mainly resulting in the detection of low-level drug possession offences.

Proponents of stop-and-search say it removes weapons from the streets—16,000 of them last year. But more than two-thirds of stops in the year to March 2021 were because of drugs.

Alex Beresford reports on one of the UK’s most controversial police tactics - stop and search - as nearly 700,000 were carried out between April 2020 and March 2021 in England and Wales.

This 64-page report examines the use of the stop-and-search power under section 44 of the act. The power is intended to prevent terrorism. But despite almost 450,000 section 44 stops and searches ...