If we have reasonable suspicions that you might be carrying something illegal or something which may be used in a crime, using stop and search enables us to search you without having to arrest you.

One power available to the police is stop and search, and Home Secretary Sajid Javid has recently emphasised its importance in tackling violence: "If stop and search means that lives can be saved ...

Police powers to stop and search people in a specified area should be immediately suspended, Justice says. The human rights group says stop-and-search is key in the disproportionate representation ...

The Assistant Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Dennis Murray, said the use of stop and search is "disproportionate", affecting trust in the police.

No report was published for April-Sept 2022 as a new reporting process was being devised to combine stop and search and use of force. In October 2019 we created an internal stop search scrutiny panel, ...