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01 March 2002

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Deaths in police custody: Deaths of members of the public during or following police contact, Police Leadership and Powers Unit. Home Office circular 16.3.02.

This circular advises chief police officers of the government's attempts to change the definition of deaths in custody. The United Families and Friends Campaign have described the report as "...a political exercise intended to obscure the gravity and extent of these deaths."

A Fair stop, Ravi Chand. Police Review 5.4.02. pp.22-23.

Chand, the president of the National Black Police Association, warns that the "random use of [police] stop and search" will only create further distrust and resentment among the large number of law abiding people from the black and other communities who find themselves being stopped frequently. He argues that "Targeted, intelligence-led policing is the only way forward", when in reality the problem is precisely that stop and search was always targeted - on black communities and others who fit police stereotypes.

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