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  1. Critically Assess the Use of Stop and Search Powers

    In this essay, it will be argued that stop and search powers, as currently exercised, are not justified; with an overly-liberal legal framework, discriminative use of the powers is evident. However, removing or substantially curtailing the powers may be counter-productive. This is because the powers are fundamentally linked to the effective ...

  2. Stop and search essay

    essay regarding stop and search ad issues around it stop and search remains vital tool for police power for protecting the public, dealing with crime and. Skip to document. University; High School. ... essay regarding stop and search ad issues around it. Module. Criminal Investigation. 7 Documents. Students shared 7 documents in this course.

  3. Critically Examine the use of Stop and Search as an Effective ...

    This essay tries to identify the issues and provide a summary of the stop and search policy and how it affects the community. Stop and search is a policy under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984) law in the United Kingdom.

  4. PDF A critical review of the use of stop and search powers in ...

    Stop and search: what is it good for? The role of the Commission A brief history of stop and search The legal framework The remit of this report Case study: Ken Hinds Section 2: Stop and search statistics 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Results using the Ministry of Justice approach 2.3 Adjusting for ethnic population changes 2.4 Conclusions

  5. Stop and search, and the Human Rights Act

    This essay examines the different legislations and regulations that govern the police power of stop and search in the UK, and how they affect the human rights of the public. It compares the powers under PACE 1984, CJPOA 1994 and TACT 2000, and discusses the cases and controversies related to them.

  6. Modern Making of Stop and Search

    Abstract. This article investigates the development of modern stop and search powers in post-war Britain—namely, the legal rules that allow police officers to stop and search a person based on reasonable suspicion, and as an adjunct to a specific offence. The article traces the rise of a preventative outlook premised on police power, rather ...

  7. The Legality of the Police Stop and Search Powers

    Substantive Law on Stop and Search. The placing of a general stop and search on a statutory footing was only achieved by s.1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984(PACE). However, the power has been in existence in some manner since the nineteenth century in order to empower the police to 'harass marginal sections of the population' .

  8. Police Powers of Stop and Search

    The police have powers to stop and search members of the public on the suspicion of reasonable grounds, which means reliable evidence. Section 1 of the police and criminal evidence act provides a police officer with the power to stop and search persons and vehicles, if he reasonably suspects that he will find stolen or prohibited articles ...

  9. Re-Thinking Procedural Justice Theory Through Stop and Search: Shame

    Stop and search and relations with police formed one aspect of the broader research into the 2011 riots, narrowing the evidentiary base for the argument here. Nevertheless, the aim here is exploratory and probative. Amongst the broader ethnography drawn upon here, the interviewees most relevant to stop and search were Steve (youth worker, black ...

  10. Stop and search

    The primary purpose of stop and search powers is to enable officers to allay or confirm suspicions about individuals without exercising their power of arrest. Police officers meet, speak with and informally advise members of the public thousands of times every day. This is the nature of effective community policing and highlights our tradition ...

  11. (PDF) Stop and Search in England and Wales: An examination of its

    The question of whether or not stop and search is an efficient procedure has been an area of extensive debate by academics for many years and to date there is considerable consensus that 'the effectiveness of stop and search remains unclear.'127 What is apparent, however, is that the divide is predominantly based upon the ability of the ...

  12. Does Stop and Search Deter Crime? Evidence From Ten Years of London

    Use of police powers to stop and search (S&S) members of the public has fallen significantly in England and Wales over the last few years. The number of recorded searches in 2014/15 was approximately 541,000 down by 58 per cent from a peak of almost 1 million in 2008/9 (Home Office 2015). Yet use of the power remains a controversial issue.

  13. Stop and Search: The Evidence

    Stop and Search was seen by those who took part in our discussion as a lightning rod and a litmus test. It was said to be a lightning rod for criticism and controversy in the wider policing and criminal justice system around issues of disproportionality, the police's response to vulnerability, police legitimacy and representation, and police engagement with minority communities.

  14. We spent seven years observing English police stop and search

    Darren Johnson met with black students to find out about their experiences of stop and search. Eye DJ/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND. As we outline in our new book, it was very rare for us to witness stop ...

  15. Police Stop and Search Powers: Effects on Public Trust

    Introduction. The increased powers of stop and search afforded to the police by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) have seriously contributed to a lack of trust and confidence in the police service, particularly among ethnic minorities. This essay will focus particularly on how the new powers have ...

  16. Stop and Search: Towards a Transnational and Comparative Approach

    The power to stop people in public places, to question them and to search their person and belongings is common to policing worldwide. Drawing on the small, but growing academic literature on 'stop and search' in a range of different geographical and institutional settings, this paper examines the use of this power in theory and in practice.

  17. How Stop and Search Reforms Have Failed

    The number of arrests for drugs as a result of stop and search fell by 52 percent for white people between 2010-11 and 2016-17 but did not fall at all for black people. The report shows that cannabis possession is driving much of the racial disparity in the prosecution and sentencing of drug offenses. Black and Asian people were convicted ...

  18. Race Issues and Stop and Search: Looking behind the Statistics

    It considers the argued fall in police use of stop and search after Macpherson and increase in use of general and anti-terrorist stop and search powers after 9/11 and 7/7. Police arguments to justify differential use between ethnic groups are considered. While concentrating on the developments since the late 1990s, the continuing nature of the ...

  19. We spent seven years observing English police stop and search

    Police use of stop and search has been widely scrutinised and regularly debated; but as Dr Mike Rowe of the University of Liverpool and Dr Geoff Pearson of the University of Manchester discovered during a seven-year study of two police forces, 'stop and accounts' and vehicle stops receive much less attention, yet can be just as damaging if used disproportionately.

  20. Stop and Search Controversy

    Stop and Search Controversy. The power to stop and search has been a prominent policing tool since the Vagrancy Act of 1824. The briefing, Series 2, Edition 3 - March 2012 , it has come under regular legal, political and societal scrutiny because of its broad and discretionary use by its police officers. However has also been praised as it ...

  21. Stop and Search Essay

    essay regarding stop and search - assessing Terrorism Act 2000, PACE and Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 there are numerous statutory provisions that. Skip to document. University; High School. Books; ... Stop and search is a very contentious area of policing. This essay will discuss whether there is a balance between the power of ...

  22. Stop and Search are Primarily Contained within PACE

    The power of stop and search are primarily contained within PACE S.1-7 and code of practise A. PACE says that an officer must not stop and search unless the necessary legal power exists. Before an officer can stop a person or vehicle they must have reasonable suspicion that an individual is in possession of a prohibited article, is about to ...

  23. PDF Effect of police stop and search powers on BAME communities

    Westminster Hall, Wednesday 23 May 2018, 9.30am. A Westminster Hall debate on Effect of police stop and search powers on BAME communities is scheduled for Wednesday 23 May 2018 at 9.30am. The Member leading the debate is Naz Shah MP. The House of Commons Library prepares a briefing in hard copy and/or online for most non-legislative debates in ...

  24. Why did my mum take her own life?

    Scotland's papers: SNP indy pledge and star's 'Scots Savile' claim ... Boy arrested over knife after stop and search. Police say the 16-year-olf was arrested in a town centre after officers found ...

  25. Civil servant who left top secret documents at bus stop to advise on

    A former civil servant who left dozens of top secret documents at a bus stop in Kent in 2021 has been appointed to help carry out a review of the UK's defences.. Angus Lapsley, who was moved ...