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Stop & search: number-crunching

06 December 2024 / Neil Parpworth
Issue: 8097 / Categories: Features , Criminal
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Neil Parpworth delves deep into the latest data to determine how the police are using stop & search powers
  • In the past three years, the annual total for stop and searches has been relatively consistent.
  • In 2023/24, most stop and searches were carried out under s 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and associated legislation. The next most commonly used power was s 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which is a ‘suspicionless’ power.
  • There was a very slight increase in the proportion of stop and searches that resulted in an arrest.
  • Black people were nearly five times as likely to be stopped and searched as White people.

Police powers of stop and search are found in a number of different enactments, as is evident from Annex A to Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE 1984), Code of Practice A (2023). Thus, provisions such as s 47 of the Firearms Act 1968, s 4 of the Crossbows Act 1987, s

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