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UK: Home Office: Police powers and procedures 2008/9 report, including stop and search figures

01 April 2010

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Police powers and procedures 2008/9 report (pdf). Including stop and search figures which show:

- 1,153,572 searches under PACE: a 10% increase over the previous year (112,603 people were arrested)
- 210,013 stop and searches under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000: an increase of 66% over the previous year: just 9 people were arrested for terrorism charges and 1,236 people arrested for other reasons)
- 150,174 stops and searches under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, anticipation of violence: an increase of 184% partly due to knife crime initiatives. (544 people were arrested for this offence and 3,729 arrested for other reasons)

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