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UK: Home Office: Police Powers and Procedures England and Wales 2009/10

01 May 2011

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UK: Home Office: Police Powers and Procedures England and Wales 2009/10 (92 pages, pdf)

1,150,153 stop and searches were carried out under PACE (S.1, Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984), 118,446 stops and searches under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) and 91,568 stops and searches in order to prevent acts of terrorism (under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000), a decrease of 56 per cent on 2008/09. These resulted in 107,444 arrests, a fall of 5%, with nine per cent overall of those stopped and seached arrested - thus over 1,366,00 people were stopped and searched and not arrested.

Of the 91,568 stops and searches in order to prevent acts of terrorism only two (0.02%) of these searches resulted in arrests connected with terrorism.

Over a quarter, 27%, of all stop and searches were carried out on Black and Asian people.

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