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Guide to the use of Stop & Search, ACPO August 2001, pp62.

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has published a guide setting out the standards expected of police officers conducting stop and searches. The manual contains sections on "Understanding stop & search", "Community consultation", "Monitoring role of the Police Authority", "Strategic and tactical use of power" "Recording [Stop & Search]", "Management information" and "Training and Development". In his foreword David Coleman, Chair of the ACPO Stop and Search Sub Group and Chief Constable of Derbyshire constabulary, says that: "We are determined to rebuild community confidence in the police service by using our powers of stop and search lawfully and ethically in support of the community against crime."

After Genoa? What next? Socialist Review, no 255, September 2001, pp36, £1.50.

Special issue on Genoa highlighting the anti-globalisation movement and emphasising that it must not be driven from the streets. Articles and analysis from demonstrators and commentators including George Monbiot, Susan George, Lindsey German, Mumia Abu-Jamal and others. Looks at evidence of police brutality, including pictures of another Italian policeman aiming a gun in Genoa, and at the main players involved in the demonstrations, viewed as "a staging post in rebuilding the left".

Annual report 2000/2001. Police Complaints Authority (2001), pp82 (£15.25).

The sixteenth annual report of the "independent" Police Complaints Authority is as uninformative as its predecessors. It contains brief entries on, among others, deaths in police care or custody, firearms incidents, police integrity, race and community, allegations against officers, self-defence and restraint and the future. Available from: PCA, 10 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AE.

Public order review, Jo Cooper. Legal Action August 2001, pp20-23.

Bi-annual column that reviews developments in public order law. This article considers affray (Public Order Act 1986 s3), criminal damage (Criminal Damage Act 1971 s1), execution of duty (Police Act 1996 s89) and harassment (Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s2).m

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