Lincolnshire Police
About this force
| Area | 2,284 square miles |
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| Recording stop and account? | Yes |
| Force website | Visit website |
About the PCC in this area
| Police & Crime Commissioner | Marc Jones (Conservative) |
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| Email address | lincolnshire-pcc@lincs.pnn.police.uk |
| PCC website | Visit website |
How many searches do police do?
April 2017 – March 2018
The police conducted 2,114 stop and searches under PACE Section 1 across the area covered by Lincolnshire Police.
This was a reduction of 19% from the previous year.
There were 2 stop and searches under Section 60 Criminal Justice & Public Order Act, a power which doesn’t require individual reasonable suspicion.
April 2016 – March 2017
The police conducted 2,601 stop and searches under PACE Section 1 across the area covered by Lincolnshire Police.
This was a reduction of 29% from the previous year.
There were 1 stop and searches under Section 60 Criminal Justice & Public Order Act, a power which doesn’t require individual reasonable suspicion.
This was a reduction of 99% from the previous year.
April 2015 – March 2016
The police conducted 3,675 stop and searches under PACE Section 1 across the area covered by Lincolnshire Police.
This was a reduction of 38% from the previous year.
There were 317 stop and searches under Section 60 Criminal Justice & Public Order Act, a power which doesn’t require individual reasonable suspicion.
This was an increase of 3422% from the previous year.
Stop and account
Lincolnshire Police record stop and accounts.
Lincolnshire is one of only nine police forces in England and Wales that record stop and accounts.
In 2013/14, a total of 1,314 recorded stop and accounts where carried out across Lincolnshire. Of these:
- 1,257 were of whites
- 8 were of blacks
- 6 were of Asians
- 8 were of people from mixed backgrounds
- 1 was of someone from a Chinese or other background
The numbers of accounts of those from non-white backgrounds are too low to provide any meaningful figures on stop and account disproportionality.
What are searches targeted at?
| Target | Proportion of searches |
|---|---|
| Drugs | 44% |
| Other | 38% |
| Stolen property | 12% |
| Offensive weapons | 4% |
| Going equipped | 2% |
| Criminal damage | 0% |
| Firearms | 0.7% |
How effective are police stop and searches?
April 2017 – March 2018
15% of stop and searches conducted under PACE Section 1 lead to an arrest.
0% of stop and searches conducted under Section 60 Criminal Justice & Public Order Act lead to an arrest.
April 2016 – March 2017
12% of stop and searches conducted under PACE Section 1 lead to an arrest.
April 2015 – March 2016
8% of stop and searches conducted under PACE Section 1 lead to an arrest.
1% of stop and searches conducted under Section 60 Criminal Justice & Public Order Act lead to an arrest.
Who is getting searched?
In 2017/18, black people were stopped and searched at just over six times the rate of white people across Lincolnshire (up from four-and-a-half times) and people from mixed backgrounds were searched at twice the rate of whites. Asians were searched at a slightly higher rate than whites, and Chinese or other ethnicities were slightly under-represented in searches.
After a major expansion in 2015/16 in the use of section 60, a power that does not require officers to suspect a person is carrying a weapon in order to search them, there was a huge reduction in their use in from 317, down to only one search in 2016/17, and only two searches in 2017/18.
PACE disproportionality ratios
| Ethnic groups | Ratio |
|---|---|
| White : Black | 1 : 6.0 |
| White : Asian | 1: 1.3 |
| White : Mixed | 1: 2.1 |
| White : Other | 1 : 0.9 |